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by Potholepete
04 Jul 2023 09:34
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX

A good project for you then Stephen ;-) to create a midi interface for the MTX that can either use the default sound capabilities of the MTX or use ES? Am guessing you would need the older din style midi connector rather than the usb of these days but it would make for an interesting project for som...
by Potholepete
03 Jul 2023 20:45
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX

er Bill ;-) I have no idea as thats way over my head lol. I'm hoping that a way to decode the midi file and send it over to ES can be found in the longer term as this would also mean any z80 based machine with the SN chip may also have access to ES, and not all of them had Darts if my memory is corr...
by Potholepete
02 Jul 2023 17:42
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

Having looked at numerous options it has been concluded that going the midi route will provide the easiest option as far as being able to use a program of choice to create at least the initial part of any game music. There are ways to get midi into Deflamask, and Furnace has a ref to importing midi ...
by Potholepete
30 Jun 2023 11:35
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

could prove useful ref re deflamask. The fact it has a half decent PSG section could mean its possible to create stuff that can be used in ES with less effort than it would take hard coding it all in, but it needs playing with I guess to see what's involved. Envosound can be configured to produce a ...
by Potholepete
29 Jun 2023 15:01
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

It seems there was an offshoot of the famitracker called SnevenTracker that was specific for the SN chip, it does not like it has been updated since 2016 though? I have been looking at the other tracker and it looks similar to Deflamask (free version)
by Potholepete
29 Jun 2023 12:43
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

Re Pauls VGM player, it may well be that someone could find a way to convert the data used in that out to a format that is much less memory hungry, but its not something I have the skills for. I read some have done this and taken a 256k file and reduced it to 148k storage, but someone else did a man...
by Potholepete
29 Jun 2023 12:41
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

I will take a look at that tracker as its not one I have seen as yet. There are so many though and many people have different views on which is the right one to use that I have found myself spending ages on the net just looking at the various choices and coming away none the wiser lol. I am yet to f...
by Potholepete
29 Jun 2023 01:39
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

So while hunting before I hit the bed I came across some writing about a VGM to Midi convertor utility. I do not know anything about it but that may be a way forward? Anyway lights out time.

J
by Potholepete
29 Jun 2023 01:20
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

i found a thread here that is similar to what might be needed for the MTX to play files from Deflamask. its just general but is on the same subject. https://www.deflemask.com/forum/general/is-there-a-method-of-using-deflemask-s-hes-files-in-homebrewindie-games/ It may be the easiest way is for me to...
by Potholepete
29 Jun 2023 01:04
Forum: PROGRAMMING
Topic: Sound Engine & Midi Music player for the MTX
Replies: 28
Views: 101055

Re: Sound Engine and Music player for the MTX

Hi Bill, I think a lot of those programs will not provide much useful information on their file formats, I know there is a common VGM format but this is not the direction I want to go down as it uses a lot of data to store the music info. Deflamask is more generally known as a tracker program, REAPE...