Extracting gm.dls samples for tiny demo trackers

[Jim]

Sounds like a mission

Jim

[rbz]

I already did my tests with playsound and directsound, and I'll be using directsound, I'm finding it very powerful (as it should be) and I have coded a basic player and working on a tracker.

Player features:
- 4 sound channels (can be expanded to 8 channels)
- 8 gm samples
- 32 rows per page
- 8 pages
- 32 postions for pattern order
- Player runs in real time, yeah I can easily add synch with intro effects.

There's no fx added yet, only volume control for each sample.

It's very very simple player, but it can able to produce some sort of music , oh yeah and very tiny - around 650~700 bytes for player and music data.

[taj]

There's no fx added yet, only volume control for each sample.

It's very very simple player, but it can able to produce some sort of music , oh yeah and very tiny - around 650~700 bytes for player and music data.

Try adding reverb or any fx and see what size your exe jumps to - my guess is you'll be >1k.

Well done on producing all that!

Chris

[rbz]

Well done on producing all that!

Thanks, just looking to what you already did, make me motivated to code my own!

Try adding reverb or any fx and see what size your exe jumps to - my guess is you'll be >1k.

Ok, I'll see what I can do...

Btw, do I really need to add midi notes (change frequency) for the samples, you know, I'm not a musician and I don't know if I *must* add this...