Multicart 2006 - I found a bug!

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This bug has bugged me for over a year now. And now I found it

 

A few years ago I started to play around with the Lynx sound engine. It sucks.

 

Anyway, I decided to find out if there is any decent sound available in that hardware and wrote a piece of code that produced every sound the Lynx is capable of producing. After that I started to remove duplicates and after around 20 hours of math on a modern PC it finally spit out a set of unique waveforms.

 

I found out that the Lynx can only produce a few thousand different waveforms.

 

Still too many to listen to manually. So I sorted these waveforms according to the number of bits in them.

 

For some reason it did not sound right on a real Lynx and I thought, well, perhaps there is a bug in the Lynx hardware. But now I found the bug - it was in my music driver. I fixed it in MegaPak and suddenly everything makes sense!

 

The latest Soundtool works like a dream. I can now change the Mozart Sonata to sound like it was played on a piano or a xylophone or anything else the Lynx can produce.

 

--

Karri

- This is a small step for a man, but a huge leap for the Atari Lynx background music

 

 

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