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That's a nice idea!

With a tiny dpcm sample for another high octave c scale, you could prolly make some quiet 4-tone chords. Like, shifting pulse/pcm triads quietly over a sustained bass/high note drone as a song intro or segue.

I haven't touched this version of famitracker but I assume if it's running notso fatso inside, perhaps the play indefinitely setting wasn't checked so it's stopping at a certain minute mark? No idea.

Not quite NES but Hitoshi Sakimoto's early work on the Genesis had a bit of it mainly in the pulse channels. Thinking Devlish. Also, the gamegear port of that and Gunstar Heroes were loaded with arps.

I enjoyed all of these a whole bunch. Arps weren't too overpowering. It tells me I should listen to those folk songs and instruments.

Hi. You know, I'm not sure if that was fixed or changed in one of the recent versions of ppmck. It used to be that mck didn't like plain @# commands on the noise channel so I usually just accessed the looped noise with a simple @EP command like, @EP0 = {5 0} Hopefully that works =) (or...perhaps it ...

As someone who does not understand the hardware or assembly side of things (yea I know,) thank you for putting that into easier terms.

If you want to go lower with the N163 for whatever reason, you can use up to 32 samples for the wave. Longer the wave, the lower the range will be, but with that many the waves tend to just fall apart, sound like mush, etc. There is prolly a correct term for the point where the human ear can no long...

I used to use MCKwatch many years back before moving to mumml.

I think Rophon has some versions on his website but I don't see 4.12. I don't have that one floating round in my mml folder either. Sorry!

I have nothing to really contribute other than I'm happy these have been made, and whatever enhancement branch is finished should be called 3pmck

hahah, interesting! It sounds like it's using the whole waveform, making a tire screech. That's hilarious.

Yeah.. But it's not as bad as NEZPlug++ or FamiTracker make it sound. At least, I didn't want to murder anything after a minute of listening to King of Kings on the real Famicom, unlike those two emulators... Seems more possible between various models & clones that the output can be stronger or...

Yep, that high pitch in King of Kings is definitely there. Bleh.

You might with the y command, but otherwise I think most of the direct frequency write commands are disabled on the N163 channels in PPmck for some silly reason and bring up the engrish error "Unuse command on this track."

aha! So then I wonder if you could just define a single buffer waveform and access those frequencies normally. My thought is that this could be used on a more common carefully made waveform working on a channel and then wrapping to the 1st buffer occasionally, sharing on some percussion or effect so...

I was mentioning this round compo time, and forgot to get back to it... There's a curious trick you can do with the N163 to get it to produce tones much higher than intended with MML. The effect seems to be very aliased or gets screwy with the filtering and makes for vastly different results across ...