Still alive....
Ingo Rose
Hari Seldon
> This group?
>
Nothing has been happening here for ages. Probably all remaining Amigans
have moved on to different groups.
But if you have a related question, ask away, and I will try to answer it.
--
Hari - http://far-out.eu
Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.
Ingo Rose
I am looking for a soft synth for amiga.
And would cool if it is controllable via midi in.
Any clue?
Regards,
Ingo
Am 15.12.09 23:47 schrieb "Hari Seldon" unter <hariseldon@7.9> in
hg93lc$3m7$1...@aioe.org:
Hari Seldon
Funny you should ask that! I was working on one, with the engine running
on the Delfina audio card`s 56k DSP - unfortunately my A4000 died and the
project got halted. Now I am down to just WinUAE, so no access to the DSP.
If you are a programmer/coder, you are welcome to the source, it is all in
`C` and 56k ASM on the DSP.
I still have the Delfina card, for Zorro slot in big-box Amigas, might let
it go for a fairly modest amount, or check the Flipper link on my site -
Amiga Music page - that works on the A1200 clock port.
Unfortunately the 68k processor in the Amiga was never really fast enough
to handle such load - in my own program only the user interface runs on
the main CPU. Details on my website (in my sig) - just hit the red
Software link and you will soon see it - it`s under analog synth.
It would have been pretty cool, the DSP was a pretty good CPU for such
tasks, someone even wrote an mp3 decoder/player to run on it, so you could
still browse, etc, without any glitches in the sound.
There are a couple of earlier attempts, one is a limited FM synth, though
it`s been a while since I tried them - ~15 years. But check out AmiNet
- http://aminet.net/pub/aminet - and look in mus/edit or mus/misc folders,
you should come across them.
Alternately perhaps BarsNPipes - forum on yahoo groups - is a pretty good
and free MIDI sequencer with many plugins and special fx...
Good luck.
Ingo Rose
Hm someone who tells me use that synth for sound and it is reachable via
midi in would help.
I just try to bring up my old cumputers together to record old synth stuff
again.
Regards,
Ingo
P.s. Sorry i am not in the state to prgramm that deep.
Or do you need an amiga for free to go on?
Am 16.12.09 02:11 schrieb "Hari Seldon" unter <hariseldon@7.9> in
hg9c3k$crc$1...@aioe.org:
Hari Seldon
> Thx,
>
> Hm someone who tells me use that synth for sound and it is reachable via
> midi in would help.
I already have midi code ready for it, from an old patch editor program I
wrote for a Roland D-110 synth module. It runs via blueribbon.library that
comes with BarsNPipes, which I was also planning to write a synth tool
for, to store all the buttons` movements as pseudo-midi tracks, notes and
sysex data. That way you could record your synth work, maybe edit it, and
B&P will replay it via DelfDCS. According to Moto, the old DSP should be
capable of ~8 tracks, depending on patch complexity.
Obviously the program will only work on Amigas with Delfina card or the
newer Flipper which also uses the Motorola 56k DSP, but a faster one, and
more memory for bigger patches.
> I just try to bring up my old cumputers together to record old synth stuff
> again.
Nothing beats the Amiga for musical stuff, I tried several Windoze synths
but they all had mouse-move glitch problems. Of course that was still
only this 1GHz intel, don`t know how things work on newer dual-core
machines...
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
> P.s. Sorry i am not in the state to prgramm that deep.
> Or do you need an amiga for free to go on?
If you were offering, then thanks, I would quite happily accept it to go
on with the project. Of course it would need to be a big box with zorro
slots for my Delfina card - if it is a 4000 then only need the mobo, I do
have everything else, including an `030 chip. Not sure if the program
could work on anything less. I am retired now, so can`t afford to get it
fixed, same goes for my old CSPPC`060 card. I can afford postage though, I
am in the UK and have paypal - maybe send my VLab Motion video digitiser
card in exchange? Comes with MovieShop. Actually, I could try to put that
on ebay, unless you wanted it. ;-)
BTW - my email address is on the "Contact" page on my site...
Oh, and did you see the new work done? The full Amiga chip-set on an FPGA
- see http://www.natami.net - and 100% AmigaOS v3.1+ compatible! That
could also take the Flipper in its PCI version - though they were planning
to include some synth capabilities in its 3D engine being added. No idea
how it is proceeding now, last May I wrote a CPU benchmark program for
them when they were testing their soft-core 68050 CPU to run in the FPGA
alongside the soft-core Agnus, Denise and Paula, etc...
And just after finishing that, the Blizzard`030 in my A1200 died too, so
now it has not enough memory to boot into OS3.9 that`s on the drive...
Cheers,