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FamiTracker
Famitracker, the NES/famicom tracker, is the music program that enabled anyone to
create 8-bit music instead of using MML or PPMCK. Throughout the 7-8 years, updated versions
have been released with the expansion sound chips: Nintendo's FDS and MMC5, Konami's VRC6
and VRC7, Namcot's N163, and in the works with the Sunsoft's SN5B Chip.
The SPC700 is the coprocesser that coordinates SNES audio. Once it initialized with
data and code sent from the SNES CPU, it manipulates the state of its accompanying digital
signal processor (DSP, which produces the output audio. It has 64KB of memory for code and
data. Within this memory are memory-mapped registers, used for communicating with the SNES
CPU, the DSP, and three available timers.
The SPC700 has 6 Registers
A - An 8-bit accumulator
X & Y - 8-bit Index Registers
SP - 8-bit stack pointer
PC - 16-bit program counter
PSW - 8-bit "Program Status Word", which stores the status flags
The Y and A registers can be paired together for some operations to form a 16-bit
register with Y as the upper byte.
The DSP has eight channels, each of which can play a 16-bit sound. Each of the eight
channels has a separate left and right stereo volume, can be played at different places, and
can have an Attack-Delay-Sustain-Release (ADSR) envelop applied to it. A white noise source
can be set to replace the sampled data on any of the eight channels. Additionally, the DSP
can apply an echo to the audio. The 16-bit audio samples are read from the SPC700's 64KB
memory space, where they are stored in a packed 4-bit loosely-compressed format.
So, with all the fascination with the SPC700/DSP, I went into figuring out how to
make an SPC. I first tried with AddmusicK, but i ended up failing every time. I then went
into using IT to SPC, which I got some success with...
some...
So then, it came to me, "What if there was a tracker made for making SPCs?" After
lots of thinking, I was thinking that the SPC700 with be a great expansion chip to add on
Famitracker, but it seems that it is much bigger than I expected. So I thought of a 16-bit
addition to Famitracker...
It's still a concept, but I think(or I a least hope to think) that the forums would enjoy
this small idea. Maybe we could all [i]throw in our 2 cents[/i] to try to help make this
a reality, because the SPC700 sound is [b][i]RAD[/i][/b]
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Some other sites I have made shelter on...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/user/KingGlitchofGlitches]Ye Youtube
[url=http://chipmusic.org/glitch_king]Ye Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/Glitch_King/]Ye BotB
I'm for this. I am VERY for this. But there is one problem; JSR is very busy as it is with Famitracker. I don't think the community could make something called "Super Famitracker" Legally... idk. I ain't no lawyer.
But aside from that, I'd love to see this; Maybe make it look similar to FT, have .SFT or .SFTM files, etc.
Some other places I've tried to conquer:
[url=http://chipmusic.org/ch3dd4r]Le Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/CH3DD4R/]Le BattleOfTheBits
[quote=CheeseGuy99]I'm for this. I am VERY for this. But there is one problem; JSR is very busy as it is with Famitracker. I don't think the community could make something called "Super Famitracker" Legally... idk. I ain't no lawyer.
But aside from that, I'd love to see this; Maybe make it look similar to FT, have .SFT or .SFTM files, etc.
I would sure use it. [/quote]
I was saying that JSR should make the Super Famitracker on the side. I was hoping that JSR would more or less support the idea of it,
and would think about the possiblility of it being made after Famitracker includes the SN5B Chip and some bug fixes. PLus, I was
hoping that I could teach myself on how to use C++ and programming stuff.
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Some other sites I have made shelter on...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/user/KingGlitchofGlitches]Ye Youtube
[url=http://chipmusic.org/glitch_king]Ye Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/Glitch_King/]Ye BotB
[quote=Glitch_King]I was saying that JSR should make the Super Famitracker on the side. I was hoping that JSR would more or less support the idea of it,
and would think about the possiblility of it being made after Famitracker includes the SN5B Chip and some bug fixes. PLus, I was
hoping that I could teach myself on how to use C++ and programming stuff.[/quote]
Well, I would sure help out if I can. I don't know C++, but I know Javascript and a bit of C#, so I wouldn't think it'd be THAT hard to learn. The HARDEST part would be emulating an SPC700, I'd think. Course, SNES emulators have'em, so how hard can it be?
Some other places I've tried to conquer:
[url=http://chipmusic.org/ch3dd4r]Le Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/CH3DD4R/]Le BattleOfTheBits
[quote=CheeseGuy99][quote=Glitch_King]I was saying that JSR should make the Super Famitracker on the side. I was hoping that JSR would more or less support the idea of it,
and would think about the possiblility of it being made after Famitracker includes the SN5B Chip and some bug fixes. PLus, I was
hoping that I could teach myself on how to use C++ and programming stuff.[/quote]
Well, I would sure help out if I can. I don't know C++, but I know Javascript and a bit of C#, so I wouldn't think it'd be THAT hard to learn. The HARDEST part would be emulating an SPC700, I'd think. Course, SNES emulators have'em, so how hard can it be?
...right?[/quote]
It could be difficult, if you don't know what you're doing, which shall be me. I've found something that could be of use though.
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Some other sites I have made shelter on...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/user/KingGlitchofGlitches]Ye Youtube
[url=http://chipmusic.org/glitch_king]Ye Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/Glitch_King/]Ye BotB
[quote=MKSTAR26]A non-native SNES tracker is already in the works over at chipmusic.org and projected for a Summer 2014 release - I'll find the thread in a moment.
EDIT: [url=http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/192530/#p192530]There we go.[/quote][url=http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/9/d/f/gfs_39773_3_1.jpg]oh
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Some other sites I have made shelter on...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/user/KingGlitchofGlitches]Ye Youtube
[url=http://chipmusic.org/glitch_king]Ye Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/Glitch_King/]Ye BotB
If I'm not mistaken, jsr has already said that he was uninterested in partaking in such a project, so I'm afraid your dream is an impossible one to make true.
There is however this other project that MKSTAR26 posted which you may want to look into.
Also for the record, I don't think a SNES tracker would be very exciting, if only due to the fact the SPC700 is a sampler, and you can already make XMs and ITs which allow many more possibilities than SPCs do. Sure, the SPC700 had built-in echo but that's just about the only thing that puts it on top of the other two formats...
Besides, there are ways to make SPCs using an XM module.
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Follow me on [url=https://twitter.com/jrlepage2a03]Twitter.
I record (some) NSFs on hardware. Feel free to [url=http://www.famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=3633]request a hardware render.
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Follow me on [url=https://twitter.com/jrlepage2a03]Twitter.
I record (some) NSFs on hardware. Feel free to [url=http://www.famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=3633]request a hardware render.
Well even though I may be greatly saddened but the impossibility of it happening, it was just an
idea.
Question on the xm2snes and the SuperNES Project,
how do you access the echo settings for XM2SNES? I've used XM2SNES but i could never actually
enable it.
And is the SuperNES like a sequencer cart like LSDJ, or is it just a Tracker?
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Some other sites I have made shelter on...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/user/KingGlitchofGlitches]Ye Youtube
[url=http://chipmusic.org/glitch_king]Ye Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/Glitch_King/]Ye BotB
