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  • Which games had the best music?Well? I always loved the music you heard upon dying in 'Zombie Zombie'. Also, are there any sites that have mp3s of Speccy music. I've seen the ones…

    ... are traditionally played on the volume register and ignore the SID ... for me as far as beeper music goes, i'd have ... to give AY a lot more thought... =-)
    TMR TMR May 2010 Games
  • New stereo audio board for fitting on AY chip - interested?Hi, I developed a small board that fits on the AY chip inside 128K ZX Spectrums: [IMG]http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/stereo_audio.j…

    ... that fits on the AY chip inside 128K ZX ... a good volume.
    It also takes the beeper sound ...
    so both, beeper and the AY will be mixed in ... your device have two separate volume potenciometers ?

    ... soldere directly onto the AY chip or can some ...
    Hood Hood August 2010 Hardware
  • New stereo audio board for fitting on AY chip - interested?Hi, I developed a small board that fits on the AY chip inside 128K ZX Spectrums: [IMG]http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/stereo_audio.j…

    ... beeper levels to match the volume of a single AY channel at full volume ... ? In the standard mix the mono beeper ... is the same volume as one note played on all three AY ... prevent the fact that one AY channel is connected left ...
    chev chev August 2010 Hardware
  • New stereo audio board for fitting on AY chip - interested?Hi, I developed a small board that fits on the AY chip inside 128K ZX Spectrums: [IMG]http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/stereo_audio.j…

    There is no volume control; there are only some ... this circuit.

    The beeper sound is on both channels ... , but the 3-channel AY-sounds are mixed to stereo ...
    bverstee bverstee August 2010 Hardware
  • sid tune remix on spectrum?I wonder if there is any way to convert c64 sid tune to spectrum? I like Matt Gray's c64 Driller theme and would love to have on speccy. Something li…

    ... AY with no software trickery (namely, pure square wave tones with volume ... the emulation (like we make beeper music).
    Their CPU is ...
    Mister Beep Mister Beep August 2010 Development
  • KempAY and Spectrum +3 queryIve been looking at the KempAY interface. It's the AY38912 chip on a board, which also doubles up as a kempston joystick interface all done in GAL ch…

    ... straight afterwards at the same volume setting).

    So ... much is true.

    Beeper sounds remain a problem though ... spectrum also includes the dud AY circuitry and sound output of ... the "fix" and enjoy the beeper sounds without also having the ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 January 2011 Hardware
  • KempAY and Spectrum +3 queryIve been looking at the KempAY interface. It's the AY38912 chip on a board, which also doubles up as a kempston joystick interface all done in GAL ch…

    ... straight afterwards at the same volume setting).
    _________________
    This ... the "fix" and enjoy the beeper sounds without also having the ... original bodged AY sound as well?
    ____________ ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey February 2011 Hardware
  • Tritone - new three channel beeper music engineYes, yet another. This one provides three channels of clean and loud tone with interrupting drums. It is something between Music Box and Savage engin…

    ... you don't have AY instruments editor in an ... XM tracker, and AY music is heavily relies ... volumes (editable as XM volume envelopes, probably), and few ... /> Conversion from VT to beeper engines is generally not very ... 75%, but inverted, 12%). AY, on the other side, ...
    Shiru Shiru March 2011 Development
  • Tritone - new three channel beeper music engineYes, yet another. This one provides three channels of clean and loud tone with interrupting drums. It is something between Music Box and Savage engin…

    ... sound being almost cross between AY/SID ish. Good ending too ... this is the best sounding beeper engine ever written.

    volume at start of attack, so ... instead of organ?
    Overall volume would be less but it ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2011 Development
  • SE Basic Type-ins^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to ma…

    ... the AY and the last channel is played on the BEEPer. ... The frequency of the BEEPer is always set for a ... 1.75Mhz AY to be in tune with the BEEPer, regardless ... /> Each of the AY channels has a volume setting:


    The volume can be OFF, on (1 ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Games with best sound effects?I used the advanced search and couldn't find a topic dedicated to it. When I say "best" I mean not just sound effects that sound like what they're s…

    ... and got to conclusion that beeper effects would require special tool ... were to make limited AY emulator for beeper (one channel of tone ... +noise with few levels of volume ... ). In theory it would allow to play AYFX effects on beeper ...
    Shiru Shiru August 2011 Games
  • Problem with sound on a grey +2Hi, posted this on another existing thread in miscellaneous but in hindsight should probably ask here: Recently I sold a very nice condition boxed …

    I recently fixed the volume difference on my 128k toastrack ... audio output from the AY and ULA beeper mixed in stereo:
    AY and beeper really are different volumes ... GOTO 10[/code]

    AY is usually just slightly quieter.
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay September 2011 Hardware
  • playing sound samples from Boriel's zxbasic-compilerfirst of all, sorry if it sounds confusing if i'm posting this thread here instead instead of at Discussions:SinclarBasic it's because this is more …

    ... /> ; Uses PWM techniques to turn beeper into a DAC
    ;
    volume tables normally used for AY sample playback gets ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2011 Development
  • Spectrum +3, Issue 2...I have just had plonked on my desk a nice issue 2 Spectrum +3. I'm not sure if its 100% working yet, as I have not plumbed it into a telly. So, assu…

    ... would be to incorporate the AY magic board into the insides ... 3 sound pins from the AY->Motherboard with no ... together, thereby isolating the whole AY sound circuit. Obviously some cheap ... volume.

    This just leaves the issue of the internal beeper ...
    Chinners Chinners December 2011 Hardware
  • 128 Heatsink Machine UpgradesThe title says it all - anything I can do to upgrade this machine? Thanks. I already have a PlusD and a DivIDE +..

    ... the volume level of the AY chip so it matched the beeper (remove ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay January 2012 Hardware
  • Best composer of ZX MusicWho do you think is the best composer old or new of zx spectrum music with in games ? My personal fave has to be Tim Follin. To me he pushed the AY…

    ... chiptune composer, and also his AY stuff was magic too. Particularly ... first tune I heard with volume control too.

    Chronos ... (using the AY chip on a 128k in conjunction with the BEEPer).
    The Starglider The Starglider April 2012 Games
  • Wanted : Fully working spectrumLooking for a ZX Spectrum +2 or toast rack with all the cables if possible. I have around ?30 to spend on one so games are not really a must as i ca…

    That's strange. Moreover, it seems that not a few 128s (including my own) have the AY volume slightly - or in some cases noticeably - lower than that of the beeper. +2As are more balanced.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2012 Wanted
  • ZX 128k +2 Bad deal - BrokenI recently traded a C64 for a ZX Spectrum 128k +2 (grey model). I sent a fully working C64, with doubles of the tapes I had. I recieved a shabby and …

    ... the AY sound, it is way lower in volume than the beeper sound ...
    Johan1973 Johan1973 June 2012 Hardware
  • Stereo sound to LCD TVI have 23" LCD TV and 2 Speccy - 128 Toast and +3. I have audio in (rgb) input in my TV and use ear output from Speccy. but 1. sound from +3 it is …

    ... 128 Speccy ?[/QUOTE]

    Volume levels on the audio output ... 't equal: beeper sound is far more loud than AY sounds.
    bverstee bverstee January 2013 Hardware
  • SWIV digitised speech as easter egg?I read in the permission from one of the authors of the game that the game had a "easter egg" with a speech from Aliens. I have never tried it myself…

    ... the position of the beeper's diaphragm by very ... resolution on a spectrum beeper like this, 4 bits ... sampled instruments through either AY or beeper. It is using this ... technique for the beeper rendtion and you can ... I even have the volume table somewhere.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Games
  • SAMPLE-TRACKER vast INSTRUCTION with screensHi, I wrote it mainly for CrashNicker and other 1-bit / Beeper users, but I suppose it could be also useful for every lo-fi musician (YM/AY chip, Co…

    ... />
    Most AY engines can be ported to beeper, some much harder ... out by only modifying the AY-volume output.

    So ... have to convert any AY commands. For the beeper, for example, it ... modified to redirect to the Beeper just by using the patch ...
    Timmy Timmy January 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help with 1-bit sampled soundHi all, I've been sent over this way from the CPC Wiki forums as you guys may be able to help me more specifically with a programming query. Firstly…

    ... specific output device. The beeper and AY get 4-bit output and ... is possible to generate a volume table for the three channels ... on the Atari ST (the volume table was circulated many years ... way to transition from one volume level to another. Their sample ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2014 Development
  • Spectrum 128K Toaskrack Music VolumeHi guys, I have a Spectrum 128K Toast rack, all seems to work OK but I notice that when playing 128K games the AY music is very low volume compared t…

    ... to have equal volume levels
    on the beeper and AY-Chip, here ...
    Luzie Luzie April 2014 Hardware
  • +2 Grey - low 128k sound volumeI'm trying to revive my old grey +2.... First problem was a faulty RF signal, so I bought a SCART cable from Retro Computer Shack on e-bay (it's the…

    ... them had such low sound volume. I always used the Retrocomputershack ... EAR, R45 for MIC and Beeper and R37 for the ...
    schombi schombi December 2014 Hardware
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... play the same tunes via beeper using pwm techniques. The output ... more recent times on the AY on the msx. Being done ... of the z80 machines with AY chip:

    [youtube]_L6V60wuRvo ... channels leads to a logarithmic volume curve.

    [quote]
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... Vicious SID demo and this AY demo, but frankly, ... to just set a volume level, you have to ... more advanced YM2149F, than Spectrum AY) into this discussion.
    ay to generate custom sounds. ... the constraints of the cpu/beeper are also coming out. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2014 Games
  • Correction of +2 hardware errorsThis is a collection of various pieces of information picked up from various places, including a lot from this forum. I have edited it and reworded i…

    ... indeed.

    Fixing the AY on composite via the sound ... has boosted the AY output to a nice volume
    and then ... has reduced the beeper output to nearly match the AY output
    MatGubbins MatGubbins April 2016 Hardware
  • c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…

    About the AY/YM confusion etc. Hmm, ... that [i]some[/i] AY revisions behave like the YM ... testing program by X-Agon/AY-RIDERS among other things, ... Since the AY is able to maintain the volume level on ... its own unlike the beeper, any ...
    Hikaru Hikaru March 2017 Announcements
  • In-game AY music and sound effectsI'm currently working on various aspects of a Spectrum game and thinking now about the sound side of things. I know you can use a utility like Vortex…

    ... coders used the AY for the music and the beeper for the ... [/i], if you turn the volume down so that the sound ... versa, if you turn the volume up to hear the music ... you to balance the sound volume between the two sources, so ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore March 2017 Development
  • Making sound using the BEEPER in AssemblyI had a look at the the documentation but it doesn't make sense to me. To make music just the beeper all I have to do is send ones and zeros to one o…

    ... suppose with most 48K AY interfaces the volume balance won't be ... /> @ivanb303 Well, anything goes with beeper ;) Your only enemy is the ... to pull it off on beeper. As I was saying, anything ...
    utz utz July 2018 Assembler
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