The Tracker For Extremely Simple Sound Devices
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This chapter illustrates the basic uses of monotone by means of an example, fictional software project. Before we walk through the tutorial, there are two minor issues to address: standard options and revision selectors. 2.1.1 Standard Options. Before operating monotone, two important command-line options should be explained.
History: What is MONOTONE?
MONOTONE started as a bit of a joke between Necros and myself, where we werelaughing about how nobody had created a tracker for the PC speaker. I likevintage PC challenges (see 8088 Corruptionfor another example), so I went about making one. MONOTONE's original designgoals were:
- Support the PC speaker, making a reasonable attempt to play multiple voices
- Take only a tiny bit of CPU time to play the music (ie. should be able to play in the background without affecting the machine)
- Run on any machine (ie. 128KB PC or PCjr)
As development continued, I decided to use the opportunity to finally see whatall of the fuss was about with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and designedMONOTONE as my first OOP exercise. This increased development time greatly (ittook me three months of free time to complete, which is a heck of a lot of timefor such a simple program), but had the benefit that song data handling, outputdevice handling, screen handling, and the player engine are all objects. Thisallows descendants of each object to only need a few routines to support acompletely new screen/file format/output device. (This decision has turned outto be fruitful, as people have already ported MONOTONE's engine to otherdevices; see External Links below.)
A very basic version of MONOTONE that met these goals was entered into Block Party 2008's Wild Competition and happily won 2nd place. Here is a short video of me demonstrating MONOTONE as part of the competition.
Chief architect premier x10 20 1 1 1 download free. MONOTONE development is ongoing, but already it's quite a useful littleprogram, so you are encouraged to download it and try it out. Full source codeis included, so you can alter MONOTONE to your needs.
The documentation in the .zip file contains more information than this web page, so feel free to grab it and take a look.
TrackMan068 provides yet another example of what is possible in MONOTONE's limited capacity:
Roadmap
The full roadmap is in the manual, but here's the quick rundown on thedevelopment milestones:
Version 1 is finished and has 8 protracker-compatible effects; supports PC speaker, Adlib, and Tandy/PCjr;it runs on any 128KB or greater PC with a color monitor.Half the editor functions are still missing, but those are on hold for version 2:
Version 2 will add support for up to 12 tracks; will switch to ST3effects/notation and editor commands; volume control; generic 'instruments' with ADSRenvelopes, arpeggio control, but also extensions for chip-specific stuff like noise channel control; more sound devices such as truemulti-squarewave PC speaker output, the CMS/Game Blaster, and the Bank StreetMusic Writer card; more powerful and flexible editor features; supportmonochrome screens and 80-column mode (needed for additional track display).
Version 3 -- no idea. I've thought of full OPL2/OPL3 manipulation, but there are so many other FM trackers out there that I think it would be pointless to try to become YET another adlib tracker.
MONOTONE started as a bit of a joke between Necros and myself, where we werelaughing about how nobody had created a tracker for the PC speaker. I likevintage PC challenges (see 8088 Corruptionfor another example), so I went about making one. MONOTONE's original designgoals were:
- Support the PC speaker, making a reasonable attempt to play multiple voices
- Take only a tiny bit of CPU time to play the music (ie. should be able to play in the background without affecting the machine)
- Run on any machine (ie. 128KB PC or PCjr)
As development continued, I decided to use the opportunity to finally see whatall of the fuss was about with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and designedMONOTONE as my first OOP exercise. This increased development time greatly (ittook me three months of free time to complete, which is a heck of a lot of timefor such a simple program), but had the benefit that song data handling, outputdevice handling, screen handling, and the player engine are all objects. Thisallows descendants of each object to only need a few routines to support acompletely new screen/file format/output device. (This decision has turned outto be fruitful, as people have already ported MONOTONE's engine to otherdevices; see External Links below.)
A very basic version of MONOTONE that met these goals was entered into Block Party 2008's Wild Competition and happily won 2nd place. Here is a short video of me demonstrating MONOTONE as part of the competition.
Chief architect premier x10 20 1 1 1 download free. MONOTONE development is ongoing, but already it's quite a useful littleprogram, so you are encouraged to download it and try it out. Full source codeis included, so you can alter MONOTONE to your needs.
The documentation in the .zip file contains more information than this web page, so feel free to grab it and take a look.
TrackMan068 provides yet another example of what is possible in MONOTONE's limited capacity:
Roadmap
The full roadmap is in the manual, but here's the quick rundown on thedevelopment milestones:
Version 1 is finished and has 8 protracker-compatible effects; supports PC speaker, Adlib, and Tandy/PCjr;it runs on any 128KB or greater PC with a color monitor.Half the editor functions are still missing, but those are on hold for version 2:
Version 2 will add support for up to 12 tracks; will switch to ST3effects/notation and editor commands; volume control; generic 'instruments' with ADSRenvelopes, arpeggio control, but also extensions for chip-specific stuff like noise channel control; more sound devices such as truemulti-squarewave PC speaker output, the CMS/Game Blaster, and the Bank StreetMusic Writer card; more powerful and flexible editor features; supportmonochrome screens and 80-column mode (needed for additional track display).
Version 3 -- no idea. I've thought of full OPL2/OPL3 manipulation, but there are so many other FM trackers out there that I think it would be pointless to try to become YET another adlib tracker.
Contact Info
If you'd like to follow MONOTONE development, suggest improvements, request features, etc. feel free to join the MONOTONE mailing list.
External Links
Sprite_TM ported the MONOTONE playback engine to the AVR! (specifically, an ATTiny84) Here's a video of it in action. He also figured out a low-cost way to decrease the size of the file format, which I will document in the manual when I get a chance.
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