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what a strange idea. i definitely admire this.
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About The Forest
Composed with Renoise, ported to ZX Spectrum by using Furnace 0.6.8.3 !
This one was a bit tricky to make! My usual process with aym is the following:
- I export a stereo track from Renoise (or any other program)
- I split it to two mono tracks in Tenacity
- Then I play these two tracks in Furnace, one panned to the left and the other to the right
The issue here is that the song was quite long and it produced a VGM file of 27 or 28 MB if I recall correctly! So I managed to reduce it to almost 12.5MB (the maximum valid size for a aym entry) by playing parts of the song as mono instead of stereo. Downsampling got me the last few megabytes.
Here is a link to my furnace module, in case this can help anyone trying to do the same thing!
Sources of the samples that were used
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Zero-G
Animato, all packs from THE VAULT
Decent Samples
Broken Piano, Earthquake Sounds, Communication Loss (Free Edition), Box Violin, Slinky Violin
ModArchive
KIArchive (nylon guitar)
Pixabay
- Phone ringing by DRAGON-STUDIO
- Phone Calling sfx by kakaist
+ homemade voice recording :O
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interesting in the soundscape for sure but there definitely is something absurd in saying "ported to ZX Spectrum" while having a 12 megabyte register dump that you'd be hard pressed to play on hardware, even with interfaces such as divIDE/divMMC (you CAN bitbang the AY on speccy by counting instruction cycles - sample based player routines have existed for a long time - but doing that plus handling disk I/O borders on impossible). ST is more plausible, ignoring memory limits, since you have timer interrupts and can actually hope to do some asynchronous I/O, but even then - this is still in territory of treating the chip as a glorified DAC rather than meaningfully engaging with its limitations AND the limitations of respective platforms.
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Ho ho, this is the kind of things I often wonder when making chiptune songs since I'm only listening it through software, in this case VGMPlay. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about ZX Spectrum and Atari ST!
Well I said this was ZX Spectrum because I selected the ZX Spectrum option on Furnace and it uses stereo (I believe Atari ST songs are mono only). So I guess my song is this kind of monster that plays well on emulators but don't work at all on actual hardware, much like NES songs that use multiple expansion chips ha ha!
Well I said this was ZX Spectrum because I selected the ZX Spectrum option on Furnace and it uses stereo (I believe Atari ST songs are mono only). So I guess my song is this kind of monster that plays well on emulators but don't work at all on actual hardware, much like NES songs that use multiple expansion chips ha ha!
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