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    • 1: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime31 Jul 2020 zmieniony
     
    To name it "SID Emulation" was a joke.
    It's just RMT and what it offers to use POKEY.
    But the sounds are real :D

    If it only was possible to put in instruments for universal use.
    • 2: CommentAuthorpavros
    • CommentTime31 Jul 2020
     
    Emkay, would you share the .rmt then?
    • 3: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime31 Jul 2020 zmieniony
     
    @pavros

    I'm tired with showing RMTs.
    I DID show what it is about, released rmt files... did teaching videos.

    But it isn't the solution to "have a look how it is done".
    Just using the setting doesn't help for a new tune. The musician knows it better, if you understand.
    I offered cooperation a thousand times, but no reaction.
    I also found SOME tunes that used my setting , but there is no mentioning about me.
    As long as people don't understand the physical part of music creation, everything is wasted time.

    If at least a tracker existed that allowed to set those instruments "physically" correct, I'd do a library for sounds.
    Releasing RMTs of what I'm doing is actually 180 degrees wrong to the direction of proper POKEY development.
    • 4:
       
      CommentAuthorpirx
    • CommentTime1 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    @emkay, release at least SAP TYPE-R files (saves of the values sent to the POKEY). This might inspire someone to do a proper editor / tracker.
    • 5: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime1 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     



    Sometime I'm releasing intros, as you might know. At least as a demonstration that good graphics and sound can be presented at the same time ;)

    ->link<-
    • 6: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime1 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    Things are really weird , when it comes to POKEY music development.

    Particular two of my edit, really should have made people nosy.

    This one , sack/c0s did in a complete version for SID, then he did a small loop in RMT. I grabbed it and this is the result:



    Also the next one. It's a very dark theme. The variantions in sound should have woke up people's interest. It sounds a bit like 15kHz, but it's clearly more in tune.





    To make it clear once again:

    It is real POKEY sound. The result is only limited by RMT and the emulations. CPU usage is very low.
    On other platforms, for sure, people would ask for coopoeration, as the music taste is different, it could be a result of "fitting taste plus fitting POKEY sounds in one" .
    But it doesn't happen.
    • 7: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime1 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    I was surprised myself, that people liked this one that much:






    It's a "simulation" of a 2 channel beeper engine.
    As it might be clear, it's also just POKEY programming in RMT.
    Very low CPU needed though.
    It's also originally a 4 channel Mod, and I put the channels together to play it at 2 channels.
    • 8: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime1 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    Also: I'm still wondering why this perfect slapstick/cartoon style 15kHz tune doesn't get popular .
    It's actually the 2020 version ;)

    • 9: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime12 Aug 2020
     
    This one is definitely better than SID.
    Or is SID able to play 4 real voices?



    And this is reached without any optimized software...
    • 10:
       
      CommentAuthorAlex
    • CommentTime13 Aug 2020
     
    Well... I don't wanna be rude, but most of those tunes sound de-tuned and it's really hard to listen to them. The last one is the only listenable.

    Regarding the number of channels. In my opinion frequency precision matters :) Three 16-bit channels sound better than four 8-bit.
    • 11: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime13 Aug 2020
     
    @Alex

    De-tuned is almost a funny term when it come to chip tunes.
    What is not "de-tuned" in your opinion?
    Can you give an example?
    • 12:
       
      CommentAuthoranonymus
    • CommentTime13 Aug 2020
     
    Your music is like technical death metal, well, technical...
    • 13:
       
      CommentAuthorAlex
    • CommentTime13 Aug 2020
     
    @emkay

    I know that chip-tunes often have a little problem with proper tuning. Word "de-tuned" in this situation means that many notes don't match proper frequencies to sound nice. There is a frequency margin for every note, but in this case this margin is too big for my ears. Don't take it personally, as I really know POKEY limitations in this matter.
    • 14: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime13 Aug 2020
     
    Alex
    The margin of the notes in my demonstration is by far better than average POKEY tunes, just by the fact that the note dependency is really the modulo of frequencies, if you understand. It's no note dodging.
    So I wonder about the basis of your statement.
    SID allows to have "modulo" sounds using different channels and waveforms, but there is a stressed shift in the basses. So , if you hear more than 1 SID tune in a row, you'd need some ear correcting contrast to not break the ears.
    From that old chips, I only would name it music, when it comes to the NES Chip.
    The 5 channels do their single part.
    • 15: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime13 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    About "Music" on old chips.

    I really "love" this version ...

    SID could in no way stand there.

    But I'd really like to do a POKEY version, if someone provided a 4 channel RMT notation.


    • 16: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime14 Aug 2020
     
    Well, there exists a pokey version.
    Using standard instrumentations.

    While it sounds a little peaky, the overall tune is ok.
    But the melodical "lead" has real problems.
    Some notes sound like broken stairs of an old ruin, which destroys the melodical flow.



    • 17: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020
     
    I'm sometimes impressed by myself, how far we can go using the available software.

    Work in progress

    • 18: CommentAuthorrosomak
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020
     
    Emkay, you are almost deaf, but at the beginning it sounds great...
    • 19: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020
     
    rosomak ;)
    • 20:
       
      CommentAuthorWolfen
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020
     
    Last one labeled "myzix plus typo atari pokey" is a cover of song Chordian by Jens-Christian Huus ->link<-
    • 21: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    Wolfen

    You are right. And it is build on the notation of the video by sack-c0s .
    I'm using the notes and pattern with my own instruments.
    And it is by far not finished, as some parts of the tune still need to be added.

    But what is the issue?

    I'm using "impossible" sound on POKEY to resemble a lot of PWM sounds on a REAL machine with just minimal CPU usage.
    The tune is definitely there.
    Also, the bass, as you hear it in the tune is "impossible" already.
    Most relevant part: RMT is in no way actively supporting that.

    Imagine the PWM active programmable including ONE software synth channel...
    • 22: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    BTW:
    The loop at the end is intentional to approve the stability of the used sounds.
    They sound the same, every cycle.
    It's only my tunes that show those "fully controlled" sounds.
    • 23:
       
      CommentAuthorWolfen
    • CommentTime17 Aug 2020
     
    No issue. Just noticed that it is a cover.
    • 24:
       
      CommentAuthorpirx
    • CommentTime19 Aug 2020
     
    @emkay oh man, for some reason I do like the last tune, immediately imagined a slow scrolling shot'em'up with a religious theme.
    • 25: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime19 Aug 2020
     
    wait wait wait. I'm still not finished with the last tune ;)


    It's just that it takes much more time to finish it, because I have to reconstruct the full tune.

    Here is some update.
    Several notes now were played more fluent, and the 4 octaves slide is cleaner/less noisy now.

    • 26: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime19 Aug 2020
     
    Last Update before final... ;)

    For the records: I cannot go further with sharpening the timing, because the emulations start to wobble.

    • 27: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime21 Aug 2020 zmieniony
     
    For some private reason I had to post this version ;)



    Almost done. All notes are in. I wonder , if some parts can be optimized in RMT.
    • 28: CommentAuthorrosomak
    • CommentTime21 Aug 2020
     
    Emkay, imho two last version are really good, you should show IT from this version
    • 29: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime21 Aug 2020
     
    @rosomak

    has your account been hacked?


    @pavros

    I wonder about you mention stable "C" bass.
    It's standard RMT 1.28.
    • 30: CommentAuthorrosomak
    • CommentTime21 Aug 2020
     
    @emkay maybe ;)
    • 31: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime21 Aug 2020
     
    Can we assume several aspects with that latest tune?

    -POKEY can sound better than every book has written in .
    -A real POKEY Tracker could go much more ahead for even better musically qualities.
    Have a look at the CPU indicator.
    -Such a tune can run on a minimalistic player.
    also
    -With some cooperation, we could have such a tune 30 years ago.
    -This means that possibly the quality of POKEY music was today at a much higher level.

    btw.

    Someone interested to use the tune in a prod. Let's say for the ABBUC contest or else?

    I cannot promise that the tune sounds 100% the same on the real thing. But it sounds in all available emulations correct.
    Actually , it might sound even better on the real Atari, because the Altirra "non linear mixing" is enabled, which is a little over.
    • 32: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime28 Aug 2020
     
    current version

    • 33:
       
      CommentAuthorCyprian
    • CommentTime31 Aug 2020
     
    @emkay, it sounds better and better.
    Can you share rtm file?
    • 34: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime31 Aug 2020
     
    @Cyprian

    Not yet.

    But you could do a recommendation. Look at the Video and what timespan, you think could sound better.
    • 35:
       
      CommentAuthorCyprian
    • CommentTime1 Sep 2020
     
    @emkay, actually hard to say, the last video just sounds cool
    • 36: CommentAuthorrosomak
    • CommentTime3 Sep 2020 zmieniony
     
    I agree, sounds really cool, somebody did it for Emkay ;)
    • 37: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime3 Sep 2020
     
    @rosomak

    Actually, I'm not good in doing 3 channel compositions for sound chips.
    This time I'm using "real" SID notations.
    Doing the "fine tune" to bring the sounds to the needed note , using POKEY tricks , is real fun then.

    If someone could provide the real notation of Hippel's "Buzzer" tune. I'm pretty sure, it will also sound cool after adding the correct POKEY sounds :)


    Btw: Here is a minor update. Some more fluent changing in the tune, and a cancelling point is removed.

    • 38:
       
      CommentAuthorpirx
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020
     
    C-C-C-Combo Breaker
    ->link<-

    New decoder from Algorithm:
    Update to the low cpu usage audio decoder for the C64.
    Some major quality and accuracy improvements in the high frequency components.
    * Under 600 bytes a second on average - Check
    * Under 32 raster lines total usage per frame - Check
    * No massive wavetables as additional data - infact there is none - Check
    What you are hearing here is 70 seconds of non sequenced audio packed into 40k
    Raster bars show that there is all that cpu time free (and no, no inbetween interleaving tricks
    Utilises new playback technique for the low frequency audio in Sid channel 3 with the high frequency components in sid channels 1 and 2.
    • 39:
       
      CommentAuthormiker
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020
     
    @pirx - portuj, nie p'dol ;)
    • 40:
       
      CommentAuthorcrrn
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020
     
    @Emkey
    I was reluctant to answer here but I'm listening to this tune cover done by You again and I have one word... Wrong!

    JCH author of original "Chordian" on C64 ( and one of the best musicians on C64 ever) is a friend of my group Bonzai. I'm going to ask him what his thoughts are about this. But man... This is sounds so Wrong!
    • 41: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020
     
    @pirx

    If you think this is not possible with POKEY, you are wrong ;)

    Not to say that this "Decoder" does nothing but playing the waveforms of SID instead from the wave itself.
    The real clever stuff is to calculate the available digitized source and to exchange them with the available waves that were played by the soundchip.


    POKEY has 4 channels, so if someone was taking care of some similar player for the Atari...
    • 42: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020
     
    @crrn
    And you are funny.

    Just because people claim that the tune only sounds correct on a 6581 , while others claim it sounds only correct on the 8580.
    So, be kind and safe further words on it.
    • 43:
       
      CommentAuthorpirx
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020
     
    @emkay first, I must say that your tune conversion above is really schmick, I love it!

    As for the Algorithm's trickery - this is something I am thinking for a long time now. Unfortunately my early attempts are just awful due to 2 factors:
    1. no sinus waves that are basis for FFT derived magic used by Algorithm
    2. very low frequency resolution of Pokey. even switching to 16-bit does not work very well for higher freq tones, possibly with some 64Khz pokey magic it would be better.

    I have a whole new idea of using machine learning and stuff to get some similar sounds, but I am too weak in this department yet.
    • 44: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime5 Sep 2020 zmieniony
     
    pirx

    the real problem with those algorithms is that PWM still isn't fully discovered. Actually it is almost undiscovered.
    See my tune, remember that RMT isn't even supporting what you hear. It's all trickery
    POKEY has the 1.79MHz.
    POKEY has 15kHz clocking
    Both can run at the same time, using programmed PWM .

    Sine wave isn't really needed. As you hear in the SID. there are real gaps in the frequency range, also there is no high tone available.
    Using the 15kHz PWM results in sawtooth when the sound substract. And it turns to triangle, when the sounds add together.
    The high notes get clean and useful sawtooth backward and forward were possible.
    PWM is not only a combination of 256x256 different pitches. It is also a combination of 256x256 different offsets in the wave creation.
    The calculation of this behavior is calculatable, just by the fact that POKEY plays the next wave after the current wave is completed. That "played wave" is the time difference (the offset) between the main voice and the "filter" voice.
    • 45:
       
      CommentAuthorcrrn
    • CommentTime9 Sep 2020
     
    Koledzy
    niech mi będzie wolno podlinkować coś co może być w temacie tego wątku.
    na kommodorowskim CSDB leci konkurs na muzykę bez użycia filtrów. wiem że filtry często są wyciągane w dyskusji POKEY vs SID więc tu można posłuchać co da się bez nich na SIDzie zrobić.

    wymagany niestety emulator bo nie ma jeszcze na YT
    link jest do CSDB a tam trzeba sobie pobrać pliczki najlepiej .prg

    ->link<-
    • 46:
       
      CommentAuthorWolfen
    • CommentTime9 Sep 2020
     
    @crrn dzięki :) wreszcie coś innego - monotematycznie się zrobilo :)
    • 47: CommentAuthorthewasp
    • CommentTime9 Sep 2020
     
    The modified version is far away from the first approach, unfortunately in a negative way. Wrong is at least the added part on the third voice. It actually doubles the lead, without any significant harmonic relations. That results with a sort of "unison mush". To be perectly honest - first release seems to be better, but... oh well. It is always great to hear POKEY generating interesting sound, different from all those (well known and just boring) "beeps" and "plums" only.
    • 48: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime9 Sep 2020 zmieniony
     
    blup

    • 49: CommentAuthoremkay
    • CommentTime9 Sep 2020
     
    @thewasp

    I didn't know that the last tune of "Chordian" was that good for people to press it down with "preferration argues" . ;)
    • 50: CommentAuthorthewasp
    • CommentTime11 Sep 2020
     
    It's about the music theory (not preferences only). In fact, I am a musician (even if not so active today, but still I am) and (for example) I used to love to hear, when bassist in my group just knows where to double notes of my part/riff, and where not to do so. Nevertheless, I think that you brought something new, fresh and very interesting. Keep up the good work.