porting soundmon tracker


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I am teaching myself c++ with a focus for writing a tracker for the gp, rather than begging for an expert to make one for me. I know there is a soundmon player for the gp but i was wondering if anyone knew how possible people thought it would be to port the actual tracker as well, obviously the controlls would have to be adapted, but LSDj for the gameboy is a powerfull tracker and has less buttons. the source code is here http://www.brianpostma.com/pc.html for pc and here for linux http://www.brianpostma.com/linux.html and the gp player source code is here http://www.brianpostma.com/gp32.html

I just need to be pointed in the right direction for my research really.

hopefully i dont sound too desperate, it's just those four channels of audio, .... such a waste so far.
 
a tracker on the GP32 :D :D :D :D :D


my prayers have been answered! good luck with the project! :)
(and keep us informed on progress!)
 
umm yea, don't get your hopes too high, i recon it will be a long time yet, but hey I am determined, absolutely determined to do it, at the cost of my health, my sanity, my mortgage, wife, ..... soul

:)
 
cheers, Much appreciated.

Is there anyone who has worked with sound on the gp and knows a bit about trackers? point me in the right direction and watch me go!
 
I've been thinking about the same thing ever since i installed "GPSmack"...
However since I've never coded anything (and also thought I was the only one who would get the idea), I've been thinking about ways of achiving a tracker through emulation...

Since my all-time beloved system, The Amiga, is'nt emulated - and everybody saying that the Atari ST is very similar - I was wondering if that system had any usable trackers?

Needless to say that I am excited that somebody actually want to try to make one for the gp32 :D
 
hiya,

yep it is such a powerfull little gizmo I really can't believe there are no trackers yet, I have one running on my c64 for god's sake! (cybertracker, there is also odintracker and future tracker btw) oh and I cut my teeth on octamed on the amiga btw

The problem with running trackers in emu on the gp is the lack of keyboard support. It takes forever with virtual keyboards, a bit of a fun crusher.

I have had a bit of success running lsdj www.littlesounddj.com on a gb emu because you input data with the joypad and buttons! but i am yet to find a gp emu with perfect sound emulation, any out there? any out there?

Back onto the controls, I recon you could probably port an already existing tracker and do a bit of work on the way that you input the info. BSmon seems ideal as you may not have to worry about sound libraries etc or importing samples (although sample support would probably be good for most people). I left a message on the developers web site as he knows his way around a gamepark but he did not respond.

the other thing I was wondering, while I am at it, could it be possible to mix mp3's on the fly? if so you may be able to run a traktor type program and dj with it?

ah well as you can tell i am passionate about this. does anyone around here visit www.micromusic.net btw
 
Here is a nice link to some ST trackers.

http://www.dhs.nu/files_msx_digi.php

But I'm afraid that Castaway doesn't emulate STE and also the sample-play support isn't very good yet. :( Still perhaps some of the Chip-trackers will work. By the way if you are looking for something perhaps a bit easier to port, Why not port an ST YM-Chip-Player, that would make at least me very Happy :D :p There is a discussion about this in the Castaway forum if you are interested :)
 
The only problem with ST trackers, is that Castaway garbles all samples. So until that is fixed, trackers will be almost useless :(
 
Yeah, thats to bad. That is the only bad thing about castaway, an autospeed would also be nice. Then it's Perfect :)
 
players are ok but i want to compose tunes on the bus, some players even show you the tracker data, that kills me, it cant be too hard to go from that to hands on editing?

oh and this may or may not he handy info for castaway (yes i know its the wrong place to post it) which i am yet to try btw


Fmgen is a FM synth emulation library which many emulators commencing with the author's M88 use. It focuses on the AY-3-8910, YM2203, YM2151, YM2608 and YM2610. So PSG/ADPCM interfaces are also implemented. Here's what's new:
Envelope was collapsed when output sample rate setting was different from the genuine sample synthesizing rate of the chip - fixed.
Grab it at M88 section.

http://retropc.net/cisc/m88/
 
so, nobody can point me in the right direction? existing tracker code, sound lib's etc? converting keyboard input into joypad and button combinations?

never mind then, i will start growing bonsai trees instead.
 
The Ztracker seems really nice, I wish you good luck! If you need any graphics, Introscreen, menus etc. I would be happy to help.
 
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