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2010-09-11 15:20
MC
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music-assembler

Any of you ever used it?

I am partly responsible for its existence.

Together with OPM who lived next door from me at the time (we lost contact) we decided after ripping lots of game tunes by Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway that we could do better technically.

We created a player routine which could play good sounding music based on tracks, sequences and presets (like hubbard's routine) minimizing RAM usage but without having big peaks in rasterline usage. The trick was working around the waiting stuff that had to be done with the SID or otherwise it wouldn't trigger. We accomplished this by having the player think ahead and make decisions for the next time the interrupt would be triggered. This routine would later become the music-assembler player code. The rest is history.

The two of us created the player routine, OPM was responsible for the track editor and I did the sequence and preset editors. We contacted Markt+Technik who also published some magazines in Germany and we had a publishing deal. They sold quite a large number of copies to my surprise at the time. I think I was about 17 years old or something back then.

I've read there were later 'updated' versions of our 1.0 release by Triad. Can anyone tell me what they changed/improved? I haven't seen a C64 in decades.

Cheers,

Marco Swagerman a.k.a. MC/DusaT
 
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2012-10-07 22:55
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Quote: *dropping down on my knees in total admiration*
"This is the rock-monitor three!"
Jan Harries is right. As far as I know all of Reyn Ouwehand's stuff is made in MA. (Except for LN III which at least uses the core of the playing routine)
There is a tune in the HVSC by me made in MA.
It was, at the time as promoted by you, the most economic and user-friendly music-maker around. And if you ask me it still is! It may lack some very advanced sound-creating functions (fast modulation, hard-restart etc.) but very easy to get into.
If goattracker wouldn't have come along I'd still be using it.
And I think that if you would type "music assembler" in the search box any other version of it should come up.
(being a dutch production I am sure anything dealing with will be on this site)


I know that I'm replying to a preeeeeeeetty old post now, but I'm still hopeful :)

I remember checking your tutorial vids a few months back and they were really helpful, so I tried checking them out again but for some reason some didn't work anymore, #6 to #9 to be exact. Could it be possible to sort that out somehow if you still have them laying around?

Thanks in advance!

I've also been working on a SDI reference sheet for a few months but haven't had that much spare time recently, hoping to finish it in a few weeks so I can finally move forward on my music project, cause SDI is obviously the way to go! :D
2012-10-10 07:52
Soren
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Hmm, I am quite sure that some of Reyn Ouwehand's music is made in other routines than music-assembler.
I remember having several of his tunes of his done in a player probably by Falco Paul, as sourcecodes.
2012-10-14 18:18
Mace

Registered: May 2002
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Just adding my two cents: most of my tunes were done in Music Assembler.
An occasional one was done in *cough* futurecomposer *washes mouth*.
Sorry for that.
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