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MC
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Registered: Jul 2009
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What makes a good SID editor?
So which feature(s) do you think are imporant?
What do you find annoying in an editor?
I'm trying to get an idea of what would make an editor stand out...
Ofcourse I have some ideas of my own but I'd first like to hear from other composers what they like.
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
It's as simple that I don't need a better or different musiceditor myself, as I'm extremely concerned about memory & rastertime, so making a "musician's" editor holds no personal interest. In fact for my purposes, NinjaTracker2.03 is so far the most optimal balance of features & performance and I currently don't know how to improve on that.
Plus, I don't get much of fulfillment or sense of accomplishment from doing featurerequests, I just get bitter :) I honestly see no way how I could change that fundamental personality trait.
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639 |
/me hugs Cadaver |
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booker
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 334 |
No worries Cadaver.
Perhaps someone will do SDI v3 GUI for PC =))) |
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966 |
Just be an emulamer like me and use SDI in Vice.
It's as good as it gets and I think it's pretty good. |
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GT
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Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 308 |
@Jeff. I'll do that with just a couple of virtual beers. ;)
@Cadaver. That's a pitty. Isn't possible to just implement small bits of code in your current player source? Updating the filter to 11-bits doesn't take more than minutes to do. The editor itself don't need any modifications because of that. The editor GUI I know is PC-based, but the music driver? Goattracker is a kickass baby of yours, you know.
@Booker and Stainless. I've been thinking of getting a C64 keyboard to the PC, as I'm hopelessly hitting the wrong keys on a PC keyboard (F-keys is especially). So I'll stick to the real deal until then. Anyone having info about a USB C64 keyboard for PCs ? |
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966 |
Quoting GeirrrrI'm hopelessly hitting the wrong keys on a PC keyboard Funny, the same happens to me when i use SDI on a real C64 :-D |
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wacek
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 513 |
@Geir: there's a nice C64 keyboard layout downloadable, why don't you just buy a cheap PC keyboard, glue the pictograms on the keys, voila :) |
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booker
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 334 |
Geir: google for "C64 usb keyboard". Some projects there, and some youtube video.
Stainless: all three SDI v2 tunes I did on Vice :))
I need some HardSID4U :)
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
Geir: updating player code, in the case of filter as it's separate from everything else, is straightforward. However to support 11-bit filter fully there should be 11 bits wide data field for at least "set cutoff", possibly also for "modulation step", and then we start dealing with conversion of old songs, toggleable 8-bit mode for those who still want the old behaviour etc.
For that reason 11-bit filter for GT2 would be better off implemented as a thirdparty hack, that simply wouldn't have to care :)
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GT
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Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 308 |
This is how I designed it, and would work in the current Goattracker player too, with its design as it is.
Filter table:
Fx xx xxx= cutoff 0-7ff, 4 byte command call, next two bytes is..
yy xx yy=resonance, xx= bandpass
Sweep one step up (ADC)
01 xx xx= speed
Sweep one step down (SBC)
81 xx xx= speed
FA xx xx= execute jump xx times, then proceed
FF xx xx= jump
You see, no need to expand the table because of the 11-bit setting. It is more than enough with the range of 00-ff for the speed. |
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