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2008-12-04 13:57
Jammer

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First arpeggio effect


as in the topic - what is the first sid tune using the infamous quick arpeggio? :P i suspect that hubbard wasn't the first to be credited with.
 
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2008-12-06 00:56
SIDWAVE
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starquake is 1x

the first arpeggio is a hard question

1986-the first 2x tune is by michael winterberg
1987-rainbow dragon by wally beben, calls 2 times the same play
1987-the first even spaced 2x tune is zig zag by antony crowther
1987-the first sample is by galway (realtime generated)
1987-the first sample is by hulsbeck (play from memory)
1987-the first 2chn sample is by banana/tek
1988-the first 3chn sample is from babana/tek

1 tune in wizball is 2x..

ofcourse, playing samples only was done before those.
space taxi, impossible mission, beach head....

rhytm king, drumprogram, is 2 chn...
funky drummer is 1 chn
microvocal/microlatin etc. is 1 chn
(all 3, samples only)

the first arpeggio ?
its a job to investigate :)

the first i heard was galway/kong strikes back,
but landwehr is 84, and we have to see if anyone did it before..
2008-12-06 01:22
McMeatLoaf

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BTW, look at /GAMES/S-Z/Soldier_One.sid (Unknown author, but perhaps by Lars Hård? It´s from 1986)
Isn't the PWM there something like 10x (#13 at over 15x AFAIK. Listen to the part beginning at around 1:30)?
The rest is maybe single-speed.

(A text output from sid2midi showed the pulse width sometimes being changed in single steps, e.g. from 1024-1025-1026 and so on instead of something like 2048-2064-2080, but it seems to change fast enough to be audible as a sweep.)

/GAMES/S-Z/Tolteka.sid
Dunno the rate here, maybe 4x?



2008-12-06 04:58
gegegege gugugugu

Registered: Jul 2002
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stuff by bob landwehr is really something soundwise, i'm quite amazed.
btw. hvsc/stil dudes: 'reelin in the years' is by steely dan, off their debut lp ;)
2008-12-07 05:31
SIDWAVE
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Quote: BTW, look at /GAMES/S-Z/Soldier_One.sid (Unknown author, but perhaps by Lars Hård? It´s from 1986)
Isn't the PWM there something like 10x (#13 at over 15x AFAIK. Listen to the part beginning at around 1:30)?
The rest is maybe single-speed.

(A text output from sid2midi showed the pulse width sometimes being changed in single steps, e.g. from 1024-1025-1026 and so on instead of something like 2048-2064-2080, but it seems to change fast enough to be audible as a sweep.)

/GAMES/S-Z/Tolteka.sid
Dunno the rate here, maybe 4x?





Wahaha,

Soldier one: it clearly sounds, as a not static square, with a +1 speed. perhaps the player is just missing a static pulse routine, so he makes as slow as possible, to make the square sound.
2009-01-02 23:52
TNT
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Quoting rambones
starquake is 1x

Check the init routine, it sets CIA timer to 4x.
2009-01-03 00:45
Jammer

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Quote: Quoting rambones
starquake is 1x

Check the init routine, it sets CIA timer to 4x.


well, music definitely doesn't sound like 4x. perhaps init routine handles not only music ;)
2009-01-03 01:38
Soren
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to spice up this thread I guess it could be just as interesting to know who first used volume above 0 for sid tunes.... ;-P
2009-01-03 14:41
SIDWAVE
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Quote: well, music definitely doesn't sound like 4x. perhaps init routine handles not only music ;)

Hmmm ok then, but Starquake is not called with 2 different play routines. it only sets 4x on the cia, but does not use spaced interval jsr play - so this is not 'real' multispeed if you ask me.
2009-01-03 20:33
Jammer

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Quote: Hmmm ok then, but Starquake is not called with 2 different play routines. it only sets 4x on the cia, but does not use spaced interval jsr play - so this is not 'real' multispeed if you ask me.


shouldn't you have quoted tnt? ;)
2009-01-04 12:44
SIDWAVE
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I quoted the correct one, but the quote inside the quote, does not come with it...
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