Re: TI-H: MIDI

To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: TI-H: MIDI
From: "SMC12" <scross@san.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 02:28:28 -0700
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


Yeah?!  Do they sell them seperatly?  How exactly would this work?  Grant
seems to like BASIC send and recieve commands.  What if you sent the entire
song to an external AVR that told the SID (or maybe some other, better
sounding MIDI device) what to play.
>Where do you get a SID chip or application information?
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>>Yeah.. I used to do sound programming on the C-64, which I believe is the
same
>>chip..  (might be a little earlier version.) anyway.. you just needed to
tell
>>what waveform it was then put in the note values..  it did have pretty
nice
>>sound..  I gotta admit it would rock on a TI :)
>>
>>Pellaeon
>>gramps@wf.net
>>
>>> >waveform generator, but I doubt it. Personaly, I'd use the SID chip
from
>>> >the commodore 128. It had 3 chanels, 4 waveforms (sine, square,
>>> >triangle, and noise), and it has 4 bit audio amplitude control (volume
>>> >from 0 to 15), and the wave form is 12 BITS!!!. That's high quality.
You
>>> >don't need much to control it Atack, sustain, reverb, decay, waveform,
>>> >pitch, and volume level. The SID chip can emulate a Piano and play a
not
>>> >with a few commands!!! I've set it up to play music before with piano
>>> >carring the melody, harpsichord on harmony, and noise to simulate
drums!
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