Topic - Musical ability ZX-Spectrum: What was, what is and what will happen.

<b>Topic</b> - Musical ability ZX-Spectrum: What was, what is and what will happen.

(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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