20100213 Breakpoint demolog, day 11: Envelopes!

I finally got round to fix the timing issues I wrote about yesterday. So I can proudly say that the envelopes are back into shape! _o\ \o/ /o_ However, I’m not totally happy with these envelopes. Since I want to keep things simple –and editable with a simple GUI such as the one that Renoise [...]

20100212 Breakpoint demolog, day 10: deltaFrames and me

Ahhh so it wasn’t going to be that easy peasy! The first time I pressed play (with the Amp envelope turned on and being applied to the output) I just got a crazy distorted sound. The Amp envelope was outputting values in the range of thousands. Why is this, this code used to work? I [...]

20100211 Breakpoint demolog, day 9

Another day working on the synth. It’s shaping out quite nicely, I think. Which is a bit of a pun since I have added some wave shaping features today :-P Today’s new features: Implemented velocity support i.e. note volumes! Hooray for sound dynamics! Added wave mix parameter What this does is simply decide how the [...]

20100209 Breakpoint demolog, days 1-7

So the quest is set, the aim is clear: create something for Breakpoint 2010. There won’t be another opportunity; not at least under the Breakpoint umbrella. The organizers have expressed publicly they don’t wish to organize yet another edition of nowadays biggest demoscene event, so it’s now or never! (At least until a new event [...]