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AY course

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Just to say hello!

I've been 'away' - which is code for my employers asking me to actually do some work over the last 18 months, at not inconsiderable inconvenience I might add. I missed the bonhomie of this forum and spending blissful hours with the zxpanded zx81!

Returning to where I left off I'm still stuck on the AY.
Is there a course anywhere yet (whole day, half day) devoted to the mysteries of direct musical composition with the AY on the zx81? ie direct as is I were doing it with midi as opposed to ...erm...programming.

Thought I'd start off with something simple!

best wishes to all

Jeff
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Hi Jeff,

Your best (only?!) bet for composition is to use Andy's tracker. I'm not familiar with its use but there should be some documentation around as it's a conversion of the spectrum tool. I hope this provides a good jumping-off point for you!

Welcome back :D

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Re: AY course

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Ah! Sir M, blessings!

I shall go prospecting through that thread, it looks very absorbing (so that's this weekend sorted!).

I did connect (couldn't resist connecting) the zxpand+AY to a Roland SH201 synth and the output is quite awesome - how wonderful it would be to be able to reverse the flow and record to the SD card from the keyboard! :o

So, date with Andy's tracker it is!

thanks again!
Jeff
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Re: AY course

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Hi,

I made pretty huge instruction about the best (and the only?) ZX81 music tool for AY:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6668/ ... tion-ayym/

Using it on real machine is nice and pleasant, btw.

Greetz,
Y
IN NIHILUM REVERTERIS - a big text-adventure game for ZX81: http://tiny.pl/g2m6m
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ZX81 COMPETITIONS 2007/2009: http://zx81.republika.pl/
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Re: AY course

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Hello yerzmyey!

That looks really interesting! :D I follow 81% of the page - though it looks like the download link is now broken????? I saw lots of really interesting tutorial pages - marvelous!

I'd like to give it a go. Thanks for posting the page.

How far is Rubber Land from Winchester by the way?
cheers
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The soundtracker program appears at the first post on:

soundtracker-for-zx81-t556.html?t=556#wrap

Not sure if this was updated to a later version - Andy Rea says that he deleted later versions and moved them to this first post - so presume this is it...
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Yep that the latest version, it's been a long time since i have tinkered with that,

I can't do music for toffee,

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Re: AY course

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What about fudge? :lol:

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:D
I instinctively reached for the 'like' button for the posts above ☝ - but there doesn't seem to be one...

Sadly (especially for those around me), I extended my music education at the expense of properly probing the dark underbelly of Z80 programming. I regret that now as I didn't turn out to be :? mozart at the keyboard after all. Mind you I may well not have got any further with the Z80 either.

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Prolog:

> Hello yerzmyey!
That looks really interesting! :D I follow 81% of the page - though it looks like the download link is now broken????? I saw lots of really interesting tutorial pages - marvelous!
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I'm glad I could help. Also, I will check out those links later. Have to find some time, y'know.

> I'd like to give it a go. Thanks for posting the page.
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The SoundTracker rulez big time. I use it more rarely last times only because I lost my ZX81 with a good keyboard (original one). But I will return to it anyway, in a few months at most. Which would mean the beginning of 2014, supposedly. If not sooner.

> How far is Rubber Land from Winchester by the way?
cheers
Jeff
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Arrrrrgh. :) Far enough, I'm afraid. Mostly due to the the Pound currency's exchange rate, hehehe. :)
So this distance isn't actually measured in miles nor kilometres. ;)

Best wishes,
Y
IN NIHILUM REVERTERIS - a big text-adventure game for ZX81: http://tiny.pl/g2m6m
"MONOCHROME" issue 5 - (Spring 2014) free paper/PDF magazine about ZX81: http://tiny.pl/q2m44
ZX81 COMPETITIONS 2007/2009: http://zx81.republika.pl/
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