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Multi-chip FTMs are all the rage now, but I was wondering if it would be possible, using something like the same tricks used to make a multi-chip FTM, to make a hacked FTM that has more than one DPCM channel (or any other channel, for that matter). I know it strays further and further from the spirit of the program, and why don't you just use MODPlug, etc., but I'm curious. Is this a possibility, or is it something that simply couldn't work because of some fundamental difference I'm missing?
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I think multi-expansion is possible precisely because it is planned (or at least considered) for a future FT release, whereas multiple instances of the same channel will never be supported.
Multiple instances of a single channel (more than one triangle, more than one DPCM channel, etc.) is impossible. For PCM in the MMC5, all MMC5 channels are halted for playback of the samples. The reason why multiple expansions is acceptable, is because it is possible to do on hardware, assuming you had one big megacart that played all of the expansions at once.
2A03 7-bit PCM isn't even planned in the first place, so I doubt MMC5 8-bit PCM is ever going to happen. You can always try and request it but don't hold your breath...
And yeah, multi-chip exists because NSFs don't check to see if an expansion is already enabled before activating another. Multiple instances of the same channel was never a thing, and never will be (I really don't get why people get so passionate about such a thing either, if I'm honest...).
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[quote=jrlepage](I really don't get why people get so passionate about such a thing either, if I'm honest...)[/quote]
We like using FamiTracker. Some of us like it primarily because of the thrill of making music that could play on an authentic NES, and others are less concerned with such a notion, but just like the sounds that the NES's channels make. I find myself in both categories from project to project; occasionally I just want to see what kinds of cool noises I can make, and that's the kind of thinking that leads me to ask questions like these.
Maybe you should be making MODs, then... I dunno, I don't like this argument being thrown at my face either, but at the same time I think if you really want to use 3 DPCMs and such, you should probably consider fake-bit or VSTs... :\
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While we're on this topic...
I have a silly request that I know will never happen but it would be the coolest:
What if you could add some c64-like channels?
Choice of waveform, sliding pwm, filter properties, etc. But instead of ADSR, the volume could be just like 2a03 volumes!
Or, if not in famitracker, I totally wish there was a way to make speed 1, t150 sids.
