>  Yeah true, not too hard I suppose, unless there are more than
 > one $d418 'poke'. Well as you seem to be the sid player expert,
 > why dont you go through some of the common ones & find them out?
 > (-:
Well, in ALL JCH tunes there are two $d418 "pokes", one is in the
init routine, and one is at the end of the main player loop. If you hunt
through for "18 D4" you find both... the first one is the init
one.
From memory, DMC 1.2 is very similiar, in fact, I'd say that it's exactly
the same (different memory locs though).
VoiceTracker might be a bit different, I'll check and get back to you.

 >  Yes, I think all you will see are lots of lights that appear to
 > be on continuously, unless your eye can catch things that are
 > changing at a million times a second (-:
What? Can't yours? 

 >  As for ROMh etc, you might as well make a cart daughterboard,
 > and put all that stuff on.
I'm thinking about it... at the moment though, I'm just trying to find some
time to relax (been a rather stressful few weeks)

 >  TM>Oh yea of little faith... ;)
 >  Well, considering Epic has been 'almost finished' for literally
 > 1 1/2 years, I have reason to be skeptical (: (sp?). Thank god
 > TBH cant read this echo, else I'd be a dead man (-:
Hey, there's one important factor here... I'm not TBH! ;) And Moonlight is
definately not "nearly finished" either.

 >  Source doesnt really worry me, its more -how- the different
 > effects work, and what they are. The ultimate would be to create
 > a player which includes all known effects (well all the ones
 > worth using anyway). One effect I havent heard much is a slow
 > pulse width sweep, ie one that takes about 5 or 6 seconds to do
 > one cycle. you here this kind of effect in many techno tracks
 > (ie real ones, not sid!).
Hmm, JCH's, DMC and Voicetracker can all do this... it's just not used that much.

 >  I might do a simple track/pattern player soon, just for
 > samples. As there are practically no effects you can do with a
 > sample, all it is is 2 bytes - sample #, and pitch. Might make
 > the high bits of the sample # represent 'loop' (note stays on),
 > and possibly 'vibrato' (about the only effect you could to with
 > a sample, ie sweep the frequency up & down). The loop isnt too
 > hard, the replay NMI routine instead of turning the note off
 > when it reaches the end, just restarts it. Anyway, will work on
 > that one..
Is there a way to control the volume of a sample? What happens if you chop
the top two bits (or so) off the top of a sample? Also, what would happen
if you got an eight bit sample, and played the high nybble on one SID, and
the low nybble on another SID? Would that constitute eight bit sound? There
is a new program coming out that has full eight bit sampling on the 64...
commercial though :( I might buy it anyway, as it has some info on
connecting an Amiga sampler to the 64... speaking of which, do you think
you could tell me why all I get from my sample is a VERY distorted of what
I'm playing through it? Yes, I was trying to modify the volume nobs and the
imput level, but even if the level was at .001 of the volume it still
distorted majorly. And turning it up seemed to make no difference (except
that it cuts out sometimes).

 >  In fact you could probably use the whole high nibble of the
 > sample # for effects, as you are not likely to have more than 16
 > samples per cannel (samples eat memory)
How about a "blitter" effect, ie: turning the sample on and off, while
still updating the sample pointer...

 >  Yeah, well I'm not going to do it unless I am truly desperate,
 > and its a file I just HAVE to have. I've subscribed to 'hacking'
 > mag, hopefully that will work ok. (as long as it is sent in a
 > message as text, its not a problem - limit for messages is
 > 2million or something chars (: )
Perhaps you could write an article for them about sampling? With demo
programs and so-on. I'm sure "duck" would be pleased!

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