little-scale’s done it again by being crafty as hell to upgrade the capability of his MIDI interfaces; this time for the Atari 2600. We showed you before that the Atari 2600 was capable of 8-bit PCM earlier via TROGdor. He’s taken this technology and melded it into his MIDI interface.
I wonder if he’s also added the capability to speed up or slow down the playrate of the samples yet. ;D
Woah that is just insane! Didn’t know the Atari could handle such sick drums.
Holy mary! This is awesome!
Hi guys. It’s 4bit not 8bit (the first channel is still available for normal TIA synthesis :D), but yes the user has the ability to change the playback speed of the drums via a MIDI CC command. Thanks for the support!
Nice. :D Do you have bankswitching set up? I’m pretty sure samples can be sped up pretty fast, and filtered before being encoded. With 8bit PCM, I can get a kick into about 512-768B. How big are your samples?
Hi B00daw, samples are about 2k each, however this is way overkill obviously, and I am looking at about yeah 500 – 1k ea, so as to fit more in. I am currently only using the lower four bits of each byte, I haven’t put two four bit samples into each byte yet, although that is an option of course and can be quite easily done.
Also – good idea about the filtering, I will have to try that out :)