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Hello everyone!
Today I decided to start talking about
Music editors for our
belovedSPECCY.We will only talk about
editors for AY-8910/12 and only
for ordinary, i.e. not digital music.
In general, the theme can be called this:
The reason for writing this article was
"dispute" between me and another musician,
about which editor is better. And I looked through
and having calculated all the pros and cons (how do I
it seemed) these editors, I decided to take out
these results for the general meeting... names
hidden by history.
At the moment there are more than
enough music editors for
SPECCY, but two turned out to be the most successful,
these are `KSA SOUND TRACKER` and `PRO TRACKER`.
I would like to warn you right away that the opinion aboutThe RULEZ`ness of these editors is purely
subjective and make a final decision
The verdict, of course, is up to you.
Well, let's start with where it's better
edit muse. In `KST` or else
called `STP`,which is also true, it’s more convenient
just write juicy music, which is good
affects the brain, because it is created
the impression that it’s not 3 channels playing, but
more. This effect is achieved due to
that you can put a maskENVELOP'a
tools, i.e. envelope mask. In `RT`
there is no such effect, but there is
a lot of others that allow you to write
diverse (in the literal sense of this
words) music. This is achieved by
you can change the speed right in the muse’s body
playing SONG, there are still a couple
small but pleasant options: this
auto-scroll text when editing;
automatic envelope setting and listening
pattern right in the text editor itself
muses. Yes, I almost forgot in `STP` there is also
a lot of nice little things: this is the installation
current instrument and ornament, more
fast movement through the text is
opportunityinstall different frequencies
envelopes in different channels.
I want to tell you a little secret, in
`RT` is not calculated quite accurately
`ENVELOP`, this is corrected by the following
way. Notes in the channel where you are
installed `ENVELOP` automatically,
you need to lower it one octave and everything will be fine
O`k!
Well, perhaps it’s worth saying a few words about
interface of these editors. In my opinion
none of them are inferior to each other in
convenience of working with windows, but working with
disk in `RT` is made much better. Yes
there are a couple of glitches in `STP` when
copying text from one channel to
another channel or another pattern, he,
i.e. the glitch is that if you
mistakenly entered the wrong data, you will have to
respond to program requests with nonsense and
start from the beginning, and in `RT` about the button
DELETE don't forget!!
And the most important thing is the clock time
processor you needto the player
to play the muse, and the length of the
player. This is probably the only thing, but also
the worst thing about `RT` is its length
The player takes up more than 2 kilos. and he is very
eats up CPU time a lot, while
time as the player `KTP` takes only
1896 bytes, and eats almost half as much
CPU time.
Well, I think I said everything, of course that's it
not the best analysis of p/o, but what I wanted
convey to your stern gaze, I
reported
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