Re: TI-H: MIDI

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: MIDI
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:24:06 -0700
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


I was thinking of using the EIIs 8bit port to is potential.  512k of memory
and 8bit SID sound...  I know a site where they have hundreds of SID files
extracted from games and programs, so we could be DJs at school dances,
(and be kicked out once we played the first note...  :)  )  Actually the
SID sound is pretty good...

Grant

>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?
>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>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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