1. musical notes
On the Atari ST way back in 1980s in GFA BASIC as I recall there was
something called "sound()" or something like that. And it took four
arguments: pitch, volume, duration, quality. The Atari ST had a special
chip for sound that operated independently of the main chip. It was easy
to make original "music" on the Atari ST.
With DOS32 Euphoria we have "sound()" but with only pitch.
With Win32 Euphoria, with win32lib.ew, we have playSound(), but it plays
a WAV file.
Is there any way with Win32 Euphoria to do what I used to do on the
Atari ST? That is: sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality)
One way might be to have a bunch of WAV files, each representing a
musical note and a specific instrument. They could be named by instrument
and frequency. For example "piano320.wav". Each one would be the
duration of the shortest note in music.
Where can I gitta holduv these wav files? Or is there a better idea?
Jerry Story
2. Re: musical notes
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<P><BR> On the Atari ST way back in 1980s in GFA BASIC as I recall there
was<BR>something called "sound()" or something like that. And it took
four<BR>arguments: pitch, volume, duration, quality. The Atari ST had a
special<BR>chip for sound that operated independently of the main chip. It
was easy<BR>to make original "music" on the Atari ST.<BR><BR> With DOS32
Euphoria we have "sound()" but with only pitch.<BR> With Win32 Euphoria,
with win32lib.ew, we have playSound(), but it plays<BR>a WAV file.<BR><BR>
Is there any way with Win32 Euphoria to do what I used to do on the<BR>Atari
ST? That is: sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality)<BR><BR> One
way might be to have a bunch of WAV files, each representing a<BR>musical note
and a specific instrument. They could be named by instrument<BR>and
frequency. For example "piano320.wav". Each one would be
the<BR>duration of the shortest note in music.<BR><BR> Where can I gitta
holduv these wav files? Or is there a better
idea?<BR><BR><BR> Jerry Story</P>
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<P><BR> On the Atari ST way back in 1980s in GFA BASIC as I recall there
was<BR>something called "sound()" or something like that. And it took
four<BR>arguments: pitch, volume, duration, quality. The Atari ST had a
special<BR>chip for sound that operated independently of the main chip. It
was easy<BR>to make original "music" on the Atari ST.<BR><BR> With DOS32
Euphoria we have "sound()" but with only pitch.<BR> With Win32 Euphoria,
with win32lib.ew, we have playSound(), but it plays<BR>a WAV file.<BR><BR>
Is there any way with Win32 Euphoria to do what I used to do on the<BR>Atari
ST? That is: sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality)<BR><BR> One
way might be to have a bunch of WAV files, each representing a<BR>musical note
and a specific instrument. They could be named by instrument<BR>and
frequency. For example "piano320.wav". Each one would be
the<BR>duration of the shortest note in music.<BR><BR>&!
nbsp; Where can I gitta holduv these wav files? Or is there a better
idea?<BR><BR><BR> Jerry Story</P>
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4. Re: musical notes
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On 27 Oct 2001, at 0:17, engale2000 at hotmail.com wrote:
Sorry the first link didn't work but you can get FrutyLoopS from
http://www.fruityloops.com/English/frames.htmlto make your wav files.
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6. Re: musical notes
Jerry Story wrote:
> On the Atari ST way back in 1980s in GFA BASIC
> as I recall there was something called "sound()"
> or something like that.
For the most part, that's been replaced with MIDI. Andrew Greenwood has
written a MIDI library that runs under Win32Lib, and a MPU-401 library that
runs under DOS. An MPU-401 is a 'generic' type of device for sending
information to an external MIDI device, but most SoundBlasters will
interpret this for you if you don't have an external MIDI device.
I've written a wrapper around Anderew's MIDI library that simplifies working
with it.
If you are interested in working with .WAV files, Pete Eberlein wrote a MOD
tracker for DOS in Euphoria. This can play .WAV file samples in real time,
essentially turning your computer into a 4 note digital sampler.
I'd take the MIDI route myself. It's a lot simpler to use than real-time
mixing, and if you have a decent soundcard, you can get excellent sound
quality.
-- David Cuny
7. Re: musical notes
Is there any way with Win32 Euphoria to do what I used to do on the
>Atari ST? That is: sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality)
>
Do you know what kind of waveforms the atari st soundchip output? Seems
likely that it had square and triangle (sawtooth) shaped waveforms at least.
A square waveform channel could be simulated by playing a square wave sample
while altering its frequency, volume and length. Same goes for any other
type of waveform.
8. Re: musical notes
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 stabmaster_ at HOTMAIL.COM wrote:
> Is there any way with Win32 Euphoria to do what I used to do on the
> >Atari ST? That is: sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality)
>
> Do you know what kind of waveforms the atari st soundchip output? Seems
> likely that it had square and triangle (sawtooth) shaped waveforms at least.
> A square waveform channel could be simulated by playing a square wave sample
> while altering its frequency, volume and length. Same goes for any other
> type of waveform.
If my memory is correct, it had a whole bunch of waveforms, depending on
the 'quality' parameter. These included squares and triangles.
> A square waveform channel could be simulated by playing a square wave sample
> while altering its frequency, volume and length. Same goes for any other
> type of waveform.
Would it be possible to computer-generate a bunch of numbers and make a
WAV file out of them that would be any pitch and any quality of sound?
If so, then the program could generate all the notes in all the octaves,
for several different 'instruments'. Once this is done, then I do the
sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality).
Jerry Story
9. Re: musical notes
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Oct 28, 2001
Of course it is possible. There are many programs that do so. One of the
best is the freeware CSOUND, that can be downloaded from the net.
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Subject: Re: musical notes
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 stabmaster_ at HOTMAIL.COM wrote:
>
> > Is there any way with Win32 Euphoria to do what I used to do on the
> > >Atari ST? That is: sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality)
> >
> > Do you know what kind of waveforms the atari st soundchip output? Seems
> > likely that it had square and triangle (sawtooth) shaped waveforms at
least.
> > A square waveform channel could be simulated by playing a square wave
sample
> > while altering its frequency, volume and length. Same goes for any other
> > type of waveform.
>
> If my memory is correct, it had a whole bunch of waveforms, depending on
> the 'quality' parameter. These included squares and triangles.
>
> > A square waveform channel could be simulated by playing a square wave
sample
> > while altering its frequency, volume and length. Same goes for any other
> > type of waveform.
>
> Would it be possible to computer-generate a bunch of numbers and make a
> WAV file out of them that would be any pitch and any quality of sound?
> If so, then the program could generate all the notes in all the octaves,
> for several different 'instruments'. Once this is done, then I do the
> sound(pitch,volume,duration,quality).
>
> Jerry Story
>
>
>
10. Re: musical notes
> Sorry the first link didn't work but you can get FrutyLoopS from
http://www.fruityloops.com/English/frames.html to make > > your wav files.
You may also try Stomper - http://www.master-zap.com/stomper/
Martin
