SNDh2AYc - iNViTRO for Benediction Coding Party

[XeNoMoRPH]

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=104736

[XeNoMoRPH]

[eto]

The sound is awesome!

[Prodatron]

The sound is awesome!

I just thought the same, when I started it, wow!

Looking forward to be there again!

[Ast]

Thank you very much for your positives comments.
It's heartwarming!!!

[BSC]

Cool music! Is there a way to look at the sound driver? 

[Ast]

Not yet, it's always wip, sorry !

[MaV]

Ah, what a beautiful gesture of Jean Michel Jarre to arrange a composition on the CPC! 

[Gryzor]

Wow, awesome tune indeed!

[trocoloco]

sweet! cool intro and the sound    

[GUNHED]

Very nice and very well done! 


EDIT: About the sound. That's the first time I do hear such kind of sound on CPC and it really IS sound (both!). Previous attempts going into that direction failed cathastrophically as we all know. So my very special Congratulations to succedd with this on the CPC the first time!!! 

[Ast]

To ear : A sample of 1st Love theme 8 (Jess/Overlanders) for Atari ST lovers !

[Ast]

Complete 1st Love by Jess/Overlanders
SNDh2AYc from Atari ST to Amstrad Plus.

[rexbeng]

Very cool! Also, I like the coffee maker being next to the computer, it saves precious time! 

[Ast]

[genesis8]

The coffee machine just left to the CPC 

[Ast]

I Will offer you a coffee at bnd coding party !

[ZorrO]

This sounds like an A500 samples, or at least like SID on C64, not like AY3 chiptune.
Do you have more of this?

[Ast]

Hello @ZorrO !

The SNDh2AYc player can do more easily !
But, to answer your question, yes, I had even converted a lot of NEW (?), for Amstrad Plus, atari st tunes.
It seems that you like it, so thanks for your comments.

[redbox]

Cool music! Is there a way to look at the sound driver?

Not yet, it's always wip, sorry !

Given it's running on a Plus, I expect it's something like this.

If you know what the timers and frequencies on the Atari ST are, it's quite simple to convert these to a DMA list for the Plus.

[genesis8]

I Will offer you a coffee at bnd coding party !

I never say no to a coffee !

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[BSC]

That's the first time I do hear such kind of sound on CPC and it really IS sound (both!). Previous attempts going into that direction failed cathastrophically as we all know.

What are you talking about? Backtro by Overflow, https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4138, already managed this more than 20 years ago. You seem to be the only one to view this as "cathastrophically" 

PS: SNDh2AYc runs on a Plus, which is not a CPC, learn your stuff.

[GUNHED]

Comparing 6128plus and CPC regarding sound... 

[BSC]

Comparing 6128plus and CPC regarding sound... 

You seem confused, but I can help.

Look, you wrote:

That's the first time I do hear such kind of sound on CPC and it really IS sound (both!). Previous attempts going into that direction failed cathastrophically as we all know.

Here, you obviously confused the Plus range (464 and 6128 Plus), for which this intro was coded, with the CPC range, which some people used to call "CPC old" to distinguish them from the 464 and 6128 Plus. Those "old" ones were the CPC 464, 664 and 6128, as you might have heard. Those have different hardware than the Plus range, which has this ASIC (quoting names so you can do some research on you own). Specifically, the CPC range does not have DMA to address the sound-chip. Something which was used in a great way in this intro here to play so-called SID voices. Not for the first time even, but let's leave that aside. On the CPC, however, similar sounding SID sounds are literally impossible for the lack of DMA support. Overflow was one of the first to demonstrate how this can be done on the CPC and I think it was very impressive, albeit (and obviously) not of the same sound quality as SNDh2AYc demonstrated. So, when you write ".. kind of sound on CPC ..", you sound really confused. But I hope you got it now.

If it's clear to you now where your mistake was, just reply "Thanks BSC, I needed this". If you are still confused and need help, reply as you like.

[HAL6128]

But the SIDPlayer for the CPC and your AyAy Kaepttn sounds really cool on the old CPCs regarding those effects.

I'm curious about the technical details of the DMA. The AY-Chip is the same on both systems (old & plus ), so in my naive technical background, does the DMA only provide speed or release the CPU from working?? ...have no clue.