feel free to ask questions or share tips about bytebeat! (preferably but not necessarily floatbeat-tailored, as the math for most stuff is usually simpler for that)

this post will also be edited to add useful info so people coming to the thread don't need to look for whether the question they have has already been asked/answered! i may also sometimes sprinkle in some of my own discoveries/techniques as well :3

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tips for starting out:

•i highly recommend using floatbeat as that will simplify a whole bunch of things later on (no need to center waveforms, avoid wraparound, etc.)
•the dollchan editor

is currently the most widely-used and feature-packed editor for bytebeat, so unless you're more comfortable working using the greggman editor for whatever reason i suggest you stick to the former!
•try to approach making music the way you would if you had to build your own music making program! so making an oscillator/sound generator, then a sequencer, mixer - it can be as simple as playing a sine wave at different pitches and having multiple simultaneous instances of that added together to play melodies and chords!

code snippets:

run certain code only at t=0 (useful for initializing persistent variables aka state):

t || (

   // init code here

),



// regular code here

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note: this thread was mainly made for the bytebeat round(s) in smackdown of the signals but you can look for info or ask around in this thread during other battles as well! i'll also check what sort of things i should explain/demonstrate in the bytebeat guide i'm writing based on what people ask or are confused about
_{also this is technically a dupe thread since bytebeat general exists but that one is ancient and filled with a bunch of old discussion about stuff that doesn't really matter anymore (concerns about using functions and whatnot) so here we are}