Hextracker (updated to 0.849B + BPM preview)

[viking272]

Nice one, great track! Thanks for sharing.

[FedePede04]

<3 it, Thx for sharing

[Desty]

Lovely rich sound, cool

[yerzmyey]

Thanks a lot guys.
Yes, TT rulezzzz big time.

Ah, Paulo was so kind to export for me the music into a regular MOD. With this, I should be able to convert it also for Atari Falcon, into XM (Growling player - if works correctly - Sqward mentioned some problems) and into Digital Home Studio's format.
Will have to find some time.

I wonder myself whether Falcon will manage 16 channels, although maybe it should as it's only in 8-bit quality.

Ah well, we will see. Or hear.

Greetzzzzzzzz!!!!!!
Y

[dma]

I hear some laser and some dance here.

[yerzmyey]

Haha, yes indeed! Although mostly I am a KOTO-kind-of-person but LaserDance is cool too.

[yerzmyey]

...although I like various kinds of music.

For some time already I was wondering whether it is possible to make symphonic music using only Atari TT. I have a standard machine. With 4Mb of RAM.

Well, the final effect isn't very satisfactory, however - here is a song with this kind of music, made entirely for Hex/Atari TT.
http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/Yerzmyey-uTTe ... miTTal.mp3

Well, could be worse, hahaha.

[DarkLord]

Me likes!

[yerzmyey]

Thx a lot.

With even more pleasure I can state, that HexTracker & Atari TT have beaten (almost) all the powerful modern PC machines in the "WildChip" compo of "Winter Chip X / Battle of the Bits" - it took the 2nd place.

All works (also for small Atari machines) -
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Battle ... er+Chip+X/

[Scarlettkitten]

/\ What a great track, congratulations.

[DarkLord]

Woohoo! - congratulations on a job well done.

[qq1975b]

Yes, congratulations
It is nice to hear these TT made songs
It is very powerful and usually forgotten.

[yerzmyey]

Finally, the idea would be to collect all those "big Atari" songs I've made and compile them into some small album. But this year was kinda harsh to me, so I'm not sure I manage to do it. I would put there stuff from Falcon, TT and those 2 made with 520ST+Roland module (MIDI).
And the HexTracker would be one of the main tools used there.
Heheh, the time came I cannot actually imagine my Atari-music-life without the prog.

[Cyprian]

[...]
Please remember that:

- this is a "FOR EVER BETA" product provided "AS IT IS";
- it should work with a 512 KB STF (hopefully E) but 1 MB is better and can handle from 1 to 16 voices in colour or high res mono 640x400 / 71 Hz;
- the STE output was tested with STeem (with a virtual ST machine up to 32 MHz );
- the virtual mix/dma core was STF built, with the STE mixing on top of it, so it is not near as fast as
Lance's one thas was STE built;
- some Protracker features/commands: BPM, finetune, set finetune ($E5), and funk it ($EF) are not
suported;
- the included code can be used by anyone to replay MODs in Hextracker or supported formats;
- please have a look at the reference text file;
- have a test at it on real HW, if you can;
[....]


Enjoy it,
Paulo.

Hi Paulo,
thanks for that great tool.
Would be possible to add MIDI support?

[yerzmyey]

Personally I suspect it would be a sh*tload of work, sadly. Especially considering that Hex is already the most powerful music-tool on both: ST and STE.

But if it's an easy thing to do, then I wouldn't protest.

[yerzmyey]

Finally, the idea would be to collect all those "big Atari" songs I've made and compile them into some small album. But this year was kinda harsh to me, so I'm not sure I manage to do it. I would put there stuff from Falcon, TT and those 2 made with 520ST+Roland module (MIDI).
And the HexTracker would be one of the main tools used there.

OK - done.
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=29507

[ljbk]

Hello !


MIDI support is not part of the plans. Sorry about that.
The best that can happen any time soon is for me to solve a nasty bug in version 0.850 that would allow to deliver a fully working "trash play" option.
That feature allows to speed up the replay by a variable amount depending on the module.
The state of the code is the same since July 2013.


Paulo.

[DarkLord]

Just wanna say thanks again for all the hard work on this cool piece of software.

Every time I fire up my STacy, I play something with Hextracker - it's that good.

[cyberic]

Hello

Would it be possible to export a song and the player code to a .sndh file?

Thx

[yerzmyey]

Hello,
they're MODs, not synthetics.

[cyberic]

> they're MODs, not synthetics

Hello Yerzmyey

AFAIK, .sndh files can also contain digi or samples.
These files are composed of the replayer code and the data.

And the replayer code can do synthesis or whatever it wants, like playing digi or samples.

[MiggyMog]

I guess the real question is why do you want to? Are you trying to play them In another program? There are programs which can play mods which hextracker exports already.

[cyberic]

> Are you trying to play them In another program

I am trying to get a YM register dump from .MOD files.

sc68-tools can dump registers from a .sndh file

and some other trackers (like maxYMizer, musicmon, vortex tracker) can export to sndh as well, that's why I was asking.

[FedePede04]

> Are you trying to play them In another program

I am trying to get a YM register dump from .MOD files.

sc68-tools can dump registers from a .sndh file

and some other trackers (like maxYMizer, musicmon, vortex tracker) can export to sndh as well, that's why I was asking.

you can't really do that, in theory you could, but i think is out of the question on a ST.
Mod files use samples, so if you played a mod using a 16khz replay routine, you would end up with a data stream of (16000hz* 14reg = 224000 byte pr sec)

way to much for the old ST

[cyberic]

> way to much for the old ST

who said I want to do it on a ST?

But ok, I get your point