Pulsar Synth Demo 1

Here’s a quick demo of where I am with the new synthesis engine which will (hopefully) form the foundation of a new tracker, “Pulsar”.

Pulsar Demo

As I mentioned before, it’s running at 240hz (updated 4 times per frame) which makes for some interesting effects.

Load up the ROM and you can modify some of the synth [...]

NTRQ Quest!

I thought I’d have a go at transcribing a track from Hero Quest to NTRQ.

Thought it might serve to illustrate how you might layout a whole track complete with arpeggios, duty mod, pitch slide, vibrato, auto-echo, tempo changes, different time signatures.

I don’t think I’ve done a proper song on NTRQ since it [...]

NTRQ Gets Live Play Mode

“Live Play” is an idea I had knocking around since I first started work on NTRQ. It was one of those “it would be nice if….” features that I just put on a list and forgot about for a long time.

However, recent work I’ve done on making notes audible as you enter them into the [...]

Nitro Queer (another NTRQ test)

Had this lying around from an earlier testing session so I tidied it up and made it into a bit of a song. Plus I needed an excuse to try the WordPress MP3 player.

Neil Baldwin – Nitro Queer (another NTRQ test)
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Output recorded from Nestopia. Only post-processing was the fade [...]