Category: Spectrum

  • Beepola hits v.1.01

    A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:
    http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Bee … .01.00.zip

    New things include:-

    * Added a new tone generation engine, based on The Music Studio, by MS-CID. This is a two-channel, sawtooth-wave engine with 12 in-built percussion sounds. Beepola’s implementation is pattern based and, like my modified Music Box player routine, produces substantially smaller code than the original Spectrum utility.

    * Added the ability to output assembler listings in addition to TAP files and BINary data files.

    * Notes and percussion effects now sound, using the currently selected beeper engine, as they’re entered.

    * Added a bunch of keyboard shortcuts (F4 – Play Pattern, F5 – Play Song, F8 -Stop, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc. etc).

    * Added Edit->Undo, Edit->Copy and Edit->Paste.

    * Added Transpose Song… option to Tools menu

    * Added Song Information… option to Tools menu
    * Added online help to the Help menu, which includes documentation for the *.bbsong file format amongst other things.

    I’ve also attempted to fix all the reported bugs (and a few unreported ones) including the delay switching between patterns on some PCs, and the crackling/stuttering playback issues that a couple of people experienced. Please let me know if there are any issues remaining.

    Thanks to everyone who made suggestions and bug reports for the v1.00 release.

    Check out this demo from Shiru:

    Via 8bc.org

  • Beepola v1.00.00 Appeared

    “Beepola is a new multi-channel, multi-engined, tracker-style Beeper music editor for Windows (although it should also run perfectly well on Linux or MacOS with a reasonably recent install of WINE).”

    From the Post:

    By “multi-engined” I mean that, once you’ve got a tune entered (or partially entered) you can listen to it (or compile it) using one of two “Tone Generators” – currently either a modified version of the Special FX 2ch+percussion engine, or a heavily modified pattern-based version of the beeper routine from “The Music Box”.

    Here are some sample tunes I’ve created with it (all are *.tap files ready for loading into your favourite emulator):-
    Chuck Rock – Core Design One of my all-time favourite game tunes (I had this game for the Sega Game Gear, although I think it was also available for the Amiga).
    Cars – Gary Numan Some obligatory 1980’s goodness.
    Root Beer Rag – Billy Joel Just because I like the tune
    The Great Escape Theme Based on the full orchestral arrangement from the film, possibly a little too ambitious for a beeper tune. Not convinced it really works too well.

    via Beepola v1.00.00 – World of Spectrum Forums.

  • Music Synth 48K T.E. Appeared

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    Shiru has posted news of a new tracker for the Zk Spectrum:

    Another 1-bit tracker for ZX Spectrum 48K, interface remake for Music Synth 48K by Simon Tillson, 1989. Two tone channels, drums, envelopes. TAP and TRD versions.

    check it out Music Synth 48K T.E. by Shiru.

    thx 4mat!

  • “Ahh.. the tape loading era!” by Ate Bit

    thx 4mat!

  • RUBBER PLEASURES – yerzmyey

    AY_interfaceWhile not actually a release per se, I was hurting for some ay goodnes.

    yerzmyey writes:

    This song is actually on the edge of Spectrum’s possibilities, I presume, however I again wanted AY to sound more interesting than normally.I added some bubbling filter-like sounds on the beginning, some other noises on 1:37, extremly hard-to-do playing with two sounds on one oscillator in 2:15 and later pretty funny synthetic sound came out by the way, AY still has its secrets, it seems plus some other various basses and synthetic fluctuating brasses.The most difficult is the ‘2 sounds on one oscillator’ trick. I must DEsynchronize sound to achieve 2 instruments playing in one channel. To tune the melody is kinda torture as only one sound is a real instrument. Another one is only distortion of the original sound but I can make it to play a song, hehe. : However AY has been never designed for that so the tuning is drudgery.

    via RUBBER PLEASURES | 8bc – Online Chiptune Media Sharing.