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  • Spectrum Sound to WAVHiya, Are there any Emulators or AY Players that can rip music/sound effects from games and record them as WAV? I'm into writing remakes and would …

    ... did.

    Dumping AY sound to MIDI format would ... tricky. 90% of all AY tunes have volume slides, and quite a ... (Squarewave) to emulate an AY, performing volume slides in MIDI is cumbersome ... a program that ignores most volume changes, though, and leaves ...
    GOC GOC September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…

    ... non-linear nature of the AY's volume scale means that 10 ... a byte to the appropriate AY output could be done in ...
    gasman gasman March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…

    ... non-linear nature of the AY's volume scale means that 10 ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Difference in emulator screen sizes and coloursSeeing as Greencard's gone out drinking... I've done a comparison between Spectaculator and ZXSpin. ZXSpin's full screen with border is taller than S…

    ... were a css post about AY voltage readings too. I'm sure ...
    Arda Arda December 2008 Emulators
  • Beepola v1.01A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Beepola_v1.01.00.zip[/URL] (650KiB) …

    WYZ Tracker?

    It is not a problem to make an AY engine which will play data of a beeper engine, but the sound will be much worse than if you make proper music in good AY editor (volume and frequency envelopes, etc).
    Shiru Shiru October 2010 Announcements
  • Making noises with the AYHow do you go about making noises from the AY chip in machine code? I'm wanting to make a pulsating humming noise that increases in volume as you ge…

    ... LD A,10 ; volume for all 3 AY channels (0 slient - ... DEFB 9,0 ; channel 1, volume (0-15)
    DEFB ...
    LD A,15 ; volume (0 silence ... 15 loudest)
    AY chip volume setting on/full?
    MatGubbins MatGubbins October 2014 Development
  • ZX Soundbooster (AY volume increase on a grey+2)Having dug out my grey+2 and run it through scart I've just noticed (to my horror) how low the ay is in comparison to beeper (+3 has ay and beeper at…

    ... my horror) how low the ay is in comparison to beeper ... beeper at the same volume although the ay is distorted). Never noticed ... a mod to boost the ay output through the sound port ... (apparently the ay and beeper volumes are at ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN May 2011 Hardware
  • AY volume on 128 SpectrumsHi! I have a 128 toastrack speccy. I think my problem is quite common: the AY soundchip output volume is quite low. To properly hear the tunes or ef…

    ... is quite common: the AY soundchip output volume is quite low. To ... to set up the TV volume a lot...and this is ... (the beeper plays in high volume on the TV).

    Spectrum Spectrum April 2013 Hardware
  • AY musicThis is a format I'm proposing for an AY music player. If anyone can see any problems or anywhere it can be improved please say so. An AY music form…

    ... data for AY instrument
    4 Volume Control - 4bit master volume control ... , set fade rate - Channel volume control
    5 Pitch Bend ... 4bit depth - change channel volume over time linearly up/down ... sign
    1byte - 4bit volume, , sampling rate (the rate ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... board that fits on the AY chip inside 128K ZX Spectrums ... distortion, and with a good volume.
    It also takes the ...
    bverstee bverstee August 2010 Hardware
  • A 30th Anniversary ProjectHappy new year (belatedly...) So with the 30th anniversary approaching, I've decided to do a hardware project to celebrate it. Something hands-on (o…

    ... pitch antenna, and the volume increases as you move ... it controls a VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) which makes ... used to drive the AY chip in a 128K ... filter to make a voltage. The voltage changes are quite ... done to program an AY chip to make interesting ...
    Winston Winston January 2012 Hardware
  • AY-interface for ZX81 (at last ;) )Hi, it exists finally ;) - compatible with the most standard one - ZonX. [url]http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Brand_New_Sinclair_ZX81_MrX_A…

    ... the ZX81 play sounds using AY Sound interfaces, and also to ... AY Sound Design Tool - this allows you to set the frequency, volume ... ZXpand Sound Player - simply copy AY files (PT3 format files) into ... playing sounds direct to the AY interface, using BASIC
    ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey February 2012 Hardware
  • AY-3-8912 emulationI am trying to improve the emulation of the AY-3-8912 in FBZX wii. I studied the code of some emulators and read some documents. I would like to be…

    ... is 1/(256*envelop_period) of AY-3-8912 frequency
    ... 1/(16*tone_period) of AY-3-8912 frequency
    ... is 1/(16*noise_period) of AY-3-8912 frequency
    ... can be modulated changing the volume.
    8 ) If ... Other information are in the AY-3-8912 manual (30- ...
    Oibaf Oibaf June 2012 Emulators
  • Simple AY library in z88dk/CI was interested to see if I could make the 128k AY chip work, and as there wasn't any library on it, I just made one for fun. It's certainly not th…

    ... // //
    // AY-lib 0.1 Header ... // IN: l = volume, max 31
    ... /> ////////////////////////////////
    // //
    // AY-lib Demo //
    // //
    ...
    Timmy Timmy August 2012 Development
  • Problems with stereo kit for AYSomeone has bought a stereo kit from me to add to his 128K ZX Spectrum. Problem however is that one of the channels is a less loud than the other tw…

    ... try.
    I suspect the AY chip to have a problem ... output connector does give equal volume levels.

    Any hints ... /> Can it still be the AY chip having a problem?
    bverstee bverstee September 2012 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…

    ... is that the sound volume from the AY-3-8912 chip is ... . If I turn the TV volume up so I can hear ... to boost the 128k sound volume?
    mappy24 mappy24 December 2012 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... 128K games the AY music is very low volume compared to the ... to fix it? an internal volume control or something?

    manic23 manic23 April 2014 Hardware
  • AY sound too quiet on 128I have 2 spectrums that exhibit this issue, a toastrack and a +2 (grey) The AY music/sounds come through very quiet when using an audio lead (on a s…

    ... +2 (grey)

    The AY music/sounds come through very ... adapter), such that if the volume is increased to compensate any ...
    Neosodium Neosodium May 2014 Hardware
  • Making noises with the AYHow do you go about making noises from the AY chip in machine code? I'm wanting to make a pulsating humming noise that increases in volume as you ge…

    ... about making noises from the AY chip in machine code?
    volume as you get near a ...
    daveysludge daveysludge October 2014 Development
  • Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…

    ... program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it ... />
    1 REM Untitled AY MUSIC Making Program
    2 ... Vol Seven and the last volume icon
    166 ... 310 LET v=11: REM volume
    315 LET v$=" ... The actual command for volume is part of a string ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • AY volume on original 128k & grey +2 machines questionI loaded up Rick Dangerous tonight on my original grey +2 which reminded me of something that I've been meaning to ask for ages. Why do some games…

    ... & Tiertex) have such low volume on the music on the ...
    Swainy Swainy September 2016 Games
  • Horizontal black and white bars on ZX Spectrum 128k ToastrackSo I found a working 128k toastrack on a local auction site. After playing around with it for a few days I noticed the sound of the AY chip was reall…

    ... noticed the sound of the AY chip was really low compared ... mod to get more volume on the AY. I decided to replace ... .

    I checked the voltage regulater and it puts out ...
    StarQuake StarQuake May 2018 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum 128k Toastrack with horizontal black and white barsSo I found a working 128k toastrack on a local auction site. After playing around with it for a few days I noticed the sound of the AY chip was reall…

    ... noticed the sound of the AY chip was really low compared ... mod to get more volume on the AY. I decided to replace ... .

    I checked the voltage regulater and it puts out ...
    StarQuake StarQuake May 2018 Updates
  • No AY sound from online emulatorsI've writing an app that makes sound using the AY. I have a simple update mechanism that works like this: 1. During a frame, I write values to a b…

    ... that makes sound using the AY. I have a simple update ... of memory that mirrors the AY eegister layout (ay_regs)
    ... , copy that to the actual AY registers (do_update_ay)

    ...
    db 0 ; chan c volume 4 bits

    [/code ...
    evilpaul evilpaul June 2020 Development
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    ... Interupts are popular for AY music but not for beeper ... control (or volume). You see the greater the voltage change across ... As an aside the AY chip can work in a ... Of course here the AY has the advantage that it ... beeper (frankly having an AY chip I never saw the ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…

    ... last volume written. It truly is easier to use the AY chip ... of the analogue signal's voltage at regular intervals of time ... to quantize the discrete-time voltage samples. At this point ... infinite precision.. a particular voltage sample might be 0.9876453285621 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2004 Development
  • Flabbergasted with the Atari 800! How did it stack up against the Spectrum?I've been watching a few videos of Atari games, and I must say, that as a Spectrum fan, I feel humbled... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXX_ot…

    ... 255 (8-bit) but volume (voltage on output) is always 4 ... is 4-bit, like on AY.
    They made Covox ... chiptunes are worse than on AY. On the opposite, I ...
    Spectrum also can play AY music in 200hz mode but ... demo DigiSid. There is AY music playing in 200hz. ...
    Mister Beep Mister Beep May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • common 128k sound issueHi all, I have got the Speccy bug again, big time! (it comes from time to time) and I'm messing around with my collection of hardware (and buying mo…

    ... /> As guesser pointed out, the AY sound is summed with the ... should produce an AY signal twice as loud (in voltage terms) which ... should be audible as a 6dB increase in volume ... modulator should already have the AY signal louder relative to the ...
    rga24 rga24 May 2013 Hardware
  • AY PlayerI'm working on a frontend DB and would like to include an option that plays Speccy music/fx via AY Player. Does any1 know if there is a .dll that I…

    ... plays Speccy music/fx via AY Player.

    Does any1 ...
    Chris Chris January 2002 Emulators
  • AY player dllDoes any1 know if there is a dll for AY Player as I would love to include this in the DB program I'm working on?

    Does any1 know if there is a dll for AY Player as I would love to include this in the DB program I'm working on?
    Chris Chris November 2001 Emulators
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