Stereo Pokey upgrade?

[Muzz73]

OK, I've been thinking of putting a Stereo Pokey board in one of my A8's for some time now. Here is my question...

 

Is it just a few demos that use it, or is there actually a visual composer that willl take advantage of that second Pokey, allowing for 8-voice, stereo compositions?

 

It doesn't seem that it'd be worth it to me, just for playing demos, but I love chiptunes, so I thought I'd look into it and see if what type of software support there might be for it.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Rybags]

Quite a few demos, some games. A good number of musical pieces.

 

RMT under Windows can be used to create 4 or 8-voice songs.

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

 

"is it just a few demos that use it...?" Its much more than that. There are:

 

a) dozens of sound/music-editors which can generate sounds and music in stereo (e.g. Theta-Music-Composer, Stereo-Chaos-Music-Composer, Stereo-Soundmon. Prof., Raster Music Tracker,...),

b) dozens of sound-players that playback in full or emulated stereo (e.g. AMS-soundplayer, Pokey-Player soundplayer, Megaplayer for CMC, TMC and MPT sounds, RMT soundplayer, etc.)

c) dozens of newer games that have stereo sound (and also a dozen of older games that can be patched or that are already patched for stereo, e.g. Zybex, Draconus, ...)

d) hundreds of demos with stereo-sound

etc.

 

Just take a look here for stereo games and demos:

http://a8.fandal.cz/search.php?search=stereo&butt_details_x=x

 

-Andreas Koch.

 

[Muzz73]

That's awesome! Thanks for the info!

[Synthpopalooza]

Or if you are like me, where my Atari 1200XL is a part of my music studio, being able to program music using 8 voices (or 4 voices in 16-bit mode) is invaluable. I have been considering doing this myself.