(C) 1997 DANIIL
Musical ability ZX-Spectrum.
What was, what is and what will happen.
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- To be commended
person for that,
being so bad
musician, he does not
throwing music for
enced by it and not
becomes a thief.
Diogenes.
*
In recent years, trying to SPECCY
connect a whole bunch of different devices
(And often succeed). If the
increasing graphics capabilities of the case
The situation is not the best way, then this
skazt not about musical opportunities
in this oblsti our craftsmen rather
priuspeli ...
But a little distracted and look at the recent past, try to
remember what music capabilities possessed SPECCY
literally years 5-7 ago.
In those days, sound control reduced
to switch a single bit
port # FE. On the musical co-processor
only knew of the toys with options SOUND
48/128, and for many it was a mystery. But even this single bit
Western developers have managed to squeeze
impossible (remember the episode SAVAGE).
Though for playing Mouzon took all
CPU time, even so a three-channel
sound that could be obtained by
software division, was very cool
(Of course at that time!)
but life goes on. Almost simultaneously with the connection
controller TR-DOS began a widespread and global implementation
of the architecture of the Spectrum Music coprocessors AY
8910/12. In our time difficult to imagine at least one user
in which this piece is missing.
At first, all pulled from the company
Mouzon of the toys, even the beginning of demostroeniya was
based on the use thereof. Then began the development of music
editors. Tangible mark on the history SPECCY left editor SOUND
TRACKER. Domestic softoproizvoditeli also did not remain in
debt, and saturate the market with things like ASM (Sendetsky,
1994), PRO TRACKER (GOLDEN DISK, 1995), SOUND TRACKER PRO (KSA,
1996). The quality of these products is incredible, from AY
now squeezed same opportunities that Western musicians do not
even dreamed of.
I would like to mention an invaluable contribution to
"Music Fund" the following people:
KSA, MIC, VOXON, IRONMAN, IMP, KLAV,
A. KOLESNIK, LAV, SLACK DEN, DOC, etc.
Now, slowly, smoothly and quietly, I
pass from MUSIC ON INTERRUPT for DIGITAL
MUSIC.
Personally, I first heard DIGITAL on AY in
Polish demos and SABRINA LAMBADA. It was unusual at the same
time, the sound quality left much to be desired. More or less
quality sound I heard in the demos WELCOME TO AMIGA WORLD and
SATISFACTION megademo. That was something
especially when you consider that the editors
DIGITAL at that time was not yet.
Then came the editors: INSTRUMENT,
DIGITAL STUDIO, DMM, SAMPLE TRACKER etc.
And they went and poeholo, now high-quality
digitization can create any user.
All of the above applies to tsifrovkam
for AY, but recently appeared koechto more ...
COVOX. How much of this sound for the heart
Russian merged ... A lot about this devayse
I will not tell, except to say that it
You can listen to an 8-bit DIGITAL
music as close to the original.
Editors COVOX'a this: SAMPLE TRACKER
and DIGITL STUDIO for COVOX.
More sophisticated version of Kovacs is SOUNDRIVE. At this
time last version is version 1.05. which is processed MYSTERY /
FLASH. Compared with version 1.02 (VOXON / FLASH), Version 1.05
a small number of different elements
(Only 5 chips), and ease of assembly, and
as the presence of the switch
SOUNDRIVE / COVOX.
The sound quality is just excellent! Four
eight-channel can hear
even the MOD files from a PC and AMIGA.
Rumors that connect to Scorpion'u
This device can not, ostensibly because of the use of port # 1F
unconfirmed. Brothers # 1F is in fact lower byte port, and
skorpionovskom # 1FFD, # 1F is a senior
bytes, and no conflicts simply can not
can! In addition, MYSTERY and DR.BARS of
FLASH have SCORPION'y and both installed SD. Yes, and your
humble servant, too, has recently set itself the thing.
Everyone is interested in software. Soft-have for SD There
FLASH TRACKER, SAMPLE TRACKER and DIGITAL STUDIO FOR SOUNDRIVE.
It should be noted that the four possible channels on SD,
supports all four only FLASH TRACKER, a SAMPLE TRACKER and
DIGITAL STUDIO support only three!
Would like to express gratitude
VOXON'u / FLASH, for the development of SD and FLASH
TRACKER. Besides the editors would welcome comments on this
Articles from above nzavannyh persons.
SOUNDRIVE but it's not the end of the musical
epic, loomed on the horizon is another device called GENERAL
SOUND, which developed a group of X-Trade of St. Petersburg.
The sound quality playback GS very high and is comparable only
to that of AMIGA or PC. The biggest advantage of this
device is that GS has
own processor (Z-80), as well as RAM.
Therefore, to play music not to waste time the main processor,
control is carried out at ports and on time, I think, no more
than AY. This opens up incredible opportunities
for creativity, though not currently
there are editors for GS, but I think
it is a matter of time.
So let's sum up what we currently have:
hardware components softovaya presence
Editor Support
BEEPER big to-the most common port # FE lichestvo possible to
extend
branded editor
Games for re-WHAM 48 kb.
Benches 48 kb.
Since 1993
almost
not supported
is called.
A huge musical-to-huge you LIMITED resistance lichestvo for
boron-core processor musical western and GOVERNMENTAL editors
AY-8910/12 Fatherland-ditch, and editing (GOVERNMENTAL
games, and Tori FX.
tayzhe mass of most races
demonstration-is large enough:
onnyh pro-ASM, SOUND
gram. TRACKER, PRO
At present, TRACKER,
widely SOUND TRACKER
sup-PRO, DIGITAL
OTE is-STUDIO, DMM,
quantitative INSTRUMENT,
softoproiz-SAMPLE
drivers. TRACKER.
LPT-COVOX Small Very small
the number of shoe
Fatherland-proof editors
GOVERNMENTAL developed moat.
current in terms of resource-SAMPLE
novnom de-TRACKER,
Monstration. DIGITAL
Since 1995, STUDIO FOR
number COVOX, it
software disordered-perhaps everything.
inclined races
tet.
SOUNDRIVE small FLASH TRACKER,
number SAMPLE
Patriotic-TRACKER,
GOVERNMENTAL developed-DIGITAL
current in terms of resource-STUDIO FOR
novnom de-SOUNDRIVE.
Monstration.
Since 1995
number
software disordered
inclined races
tet.
GENERAL Soft Editors
SOUND absent. no.
Even after writing this article to us
Received Received demonstrtsiya o SOUNDRIVE
version 1.51 which contains useful
information, in particular after the completion
which does not require switch SD / CVX.
Two demonstrations of SD v1.05 and v.1.51 you
can be found in the appendix.
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