doopdee - Thalassophobics are never at bay (POKEY)
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- I've been wanting to show the Atari sound chips some love as of lately. Expect more POKEY and MIKEY music in the future!
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Great use of Pokey 😁👍
Pokey demo :v :)
an apple a day keeps the never at bay 🤯
i read the title with the word transphobics
how do you get such stable PWM in the beginning?
The POKEY uses a frequency divider for the pitch of notes, so the lower the pitch of the note you're playing, the more precision you get for the frequency. By turning the 15khz option on and XOR on channels 2+4, I can play low-pitched PWM by also playing 2 square waves on channels 2+4 and offsetting one of the square waves' pitch. This bassline's only 20 semitones away from the lowest note possible with square waves and 15khz, so I have a lot of precision with the pitch and can make the offset of one of the square waves' pitch quite small. (Sorry for the long explanation, I don't know how much knowledge you have on the POKEY so I summed up as much as I could)
Those tunes always sound like "wishes of the past" , as they play tunes that were not really playable on the real thing.
While each channel could sound like this, they were not possible to play at the same time. You'd need at least 2 PoKeys to play that tune on the real thing.
I get why you're saying that, but in reality I just juggled between different features of the POKEY at once. For example, from 0:19 to 0:49 and 1:05 to 1:36, 16-bit 1+2 and high1 are turned on to make the bassline sound much less out of tune, which sacrifices channel 2. But whenever that bass is not playing, 16-bit 1+2 and high1 are turned off so that channels 1 and 2 can both play arpeggios.
As well as this, each channel in this tune really does only use an 8-bit divider for the pitch, excluding when two channels are joined for 16-bit pitch. However, in the same way that our eyes find it hard to see the loss in detail in an image format like JPEG, if you're careful with how you write your music ears will find it hard to perceive the out of tune nature of the POKEY.