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Midi would be fantastic, maybe overkill though.

The simplest possible way of syncing to hardware would be to have a "step advance" triggered by the joystick fire button. I have a hardware sequencer that can provide this kind of signal (Arturia beatstep pro)

I'm not sure how this would work with the internals of miniseq though. Are "note lengths" calculated from the tempo, or are they fixed?

I occasionally take part in modular jam sessions and this would be a great thing to take along.

It's the nicest c64 music thing I've seen so far, and there are some really fantastic things around these days.

4mat2 years ago

Ah, yes doing a step on joystick input would be easy to add. Let me have a look into that. Usually the music driver is running off the system interrupt. I'll have to double check but I think as I don't set the timer speed it'll default to 60fps on both PAL & NTSC systems. The tempo counts X ticks and then moves to the next step. Note lengths are dependent on the oscillator's gate being switched on or off on a step. As it's feeding data into the sound chip registers directly all the settings for a channel can be independent of each other. The downside with this editor is registers can only be set to a fixed value once per step (the left side of the screen) , but their values can be altered per tick using addition/subtraction on the right side of the screen.

ewanuno2 years ago

nice,
i'll look forward to trying that.

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