Squirrel 3.0 coming next week (4/10ish)

[TheOldMan]

Hey Ark, does the PSG bios (for CD setup) parse the sound channel for you (the binary) or do you have to manually feed it the PSG commands?

Think of it as Basic for sound. You write a program (the MML), run it through squirrel, set it up in your program, and then run it. All of the parsing/wave loading/effects processing happens in the background (well, in the irq routines)

You'll laugh at how simple it is to use. Seriously, the hardest part is writing the songs and effects
And that's not too bad if you can read music.

[There is a lot of power there, though. You can put a lot of compiled MML in 2 banks of memory]

[Arkhan]

Yeah,

For example (I think this was mentioned before), Insanity's chiptune soundtrack fits into 1 bank.   

It's all magic

[Bonknuts]

Ahh ok. So you set the channel pointer to the track binary/data and the PSG bios parses it for you? So if I wanted to have sample support (7khz DDA or ADPCM), I have to kinda follow along externally to the PSG bios routine? I'd need to be able to read/track the PSB bios tempo control variable.

[Arkhan]

Ahh ok. So you set the channel pointer to the track binary/data and the PSG bios parses it for you? So if I wanted to have sample support (7khz DDA or ADPCM), I have to kinda follow along externally to the PSG bios routine? I'd need to be able to read/track the PSB bios tempo control variable.

Right.   The PSG Bios doesn't really handle samples, and trying to do so is pretty tricky.  It throws the player off completely.  I have a pretty OK way of using hand-rolled samples, and someone else who I don't think posts here, was actually using the same method for voice samples.

It's sort of tedious though, and not very flexible if you want a sample-crazy song.   Would be good for a kick and snare

[Arkhan]

I created the video for this.

I'm working on relining up the audio as it fell out of sync

also, it compressed funny. Hypercam is dumb.

It's solid for a tutorial vid though.

So, soon it will be ONLINE!

[Nando]

NICE!!!!

[Arkhan]

NICE!!!!

yeah, there are times where the screen gets kinda goofy while flipping from program to program, but in a second or so, it clears up.    It doesn't remove from the usefullness, it just looks like a Sega CD movie sometimes.

I could redo it all, but its a 25 minute video.

[Nando]

HAHAH you should include a Sega logo in between, just a few seconds worth.  Non linear editing style

[Arkhan]

lol

I might put subliminal messages saying TRACKERS BLOW.

[Nando]

lol

I might put subliminal messages saying TRACKERS BLOW.

[Arkhan]

exactly.