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0 byte mztempo 1 byte mzloop 2 13*32 dinsnames 418 16*32 dinsbase 930 13*32 fminsnames 1346 11*32 fminsbase 1698 256 ordbase 1954 4*128 patoffbase 2466 4*128 patlenbase 2978 ? pattern data ? ? digital instrument data Ok, first off... This is not a major release or anything... This is the digital+FM composer some people asked for after we released RBGDEMO2 with the DFM muzik driver... It is a very basic, bare-bones composer. This is because it was never meant for public distribution... But for the curious, here it is... I don't feel like typing up major long dox on this thing, so youre gonna have to figure most of the stuff in this thing out for yourself... (Someone out there, type up dox if ya can if ya figure this thing out... Or maybe one of us will do it sometime in the future...)... But for some basic help, hit '?' once youre in the program... These are the main filez you should have: CDFM.EXE - the DFM composer... CDFM.DAT - the FM instrument bank file... PLAY670.EXE - a standalone 670 file player... and one or two sample filez... Run CDFM without any parameters to get the syntax to run it, then create yourself a little batch file to run it quickly... (The -c# parameter takes a number right after the 'c'... This specifies the color scheme you want to use, the defined color schemes are between 0 and something, but you can experiment with letters and other ASCII symbols, you will get some very weird colorz)... The two type of filez this thing saves are '.C67' filez and '.670' filez... only the 670 files are actual 670 muzik filez... They can be saved (with ALT-F12) but not loaded... The C67 filez are the filez the composer uses to load and save, it contains the muzik and some misc info that only the composer uses... (BTW: You can play the 670 filez in RBGDEMO2 by specifying them on it's commandline)... The 670 format is not meant to be a major muzik format or anything. Like I said, the composer was done, and people wanted it, so you got it... Oh well, enjoy this thing... and if you do any good tunez, u/l em to the sound barrier, we might wanna hear 'em... Oh yeah, for those interested, the digital mixing in the composer is at 22k. Also, this thing is not totally bug free I think... hmm, but I have not encountered any major problems... CC and Mozaik tell me that the digital instruments sometimes fuck up after reloading... but I have not ren into this problem myself... Notes on this thing to help you out: 0) This is sorta like a combo of my other composers, many keys are the same as them, many especially like composer 669... 1) The digital instrument directory MUST have a trailing backslash... 2) In the FM instruments, If 'C' is 0 then ALWAYS leave the second 'Tl' at 0. If 'C' is 1 then leave BOTH 'Tl's at 0. 3) If you set the Loop to an order at which there is no pattern, you will suffer!!! 4) There better be some filez in the digital instrument directory you specify or the thing will fuk up!!! 5) Changing an instrument sound in the FM channels takes a physical amount of time during playback, so for the sake of speed in playback in the game or demo or whatever, try to keep the instrument and volume changes in the FM channels down to a minimum... (that is if the previous note was on instrument 13 and volume B, another note on 13 and B would take faster than one say on 14 and B, or 13 and D, ect... 6) The octaves are 0-3 (4 actually cuz of the upper row of note keys) for digital, and 0-6 (7) for FM. If ya try to do anything for the digital channels with the octave above 4, it will automatically be adjusted to 3 (for the lower keys, 4 for the upper) 7) Heres some keys before I forget, = and \ for volume, / and * for octave, + and - for pattern, < and > for loop, ; and ' for tempo... 8) The '-c' switch sets the color palette for the composer, without it the default pal is used, but you can specify 0-6 as a substitute color palette. You can use numbers higher than 6 and even any letter or character or anything, but there are no defined color schemes for those so you might get some pretty weird colorz... 9) Use F12 to save the song for reloading l8r, ALT-F12 creates a plain bare bones data file which you have no use for... A) There are a lot of channels here, you dont have to use all of them on a song, but ofcourse all channels will sound better. One way is to first write the muzik with as many or as few channels as you need, then come back and add some counter-melodies on the free channels... B) The FM channels can very easily totally overwhelm the digital channels, so take care when composing a muzik... C) The digital and FM instruments are sometimes out of tune with each other, that means a mid-C on the digital instrument would sound out of tune with a mid-C FM... D) All the block commands of 669 are here, and ` and ALT-M too... And the first letter thing works in the instrument selection thing... E) Hmm, i was a little mistaken in 'B)', with good enough digital instruments, it is the FM that can be totally overwhelmed... oh well, you gonna have to try for yourself... F) This is a very nice driver and format I just invented, even if we want only FM or only digital muzik, you can do it with this compozer and I'll probably use the new driver to play it in the game or demo... Meaning when youre compozing your muzik with this, youre not LOCKED into using all the channels, but rather the channels are all at your disposal, do with them whatever you want to create good muzik... 10) Marking and copying tracks between digital and FM channels can be a little tricky cuz of the different octave ranges... 11) The instruments included are the standard MIDI instruments, grouped alphabetically instead of they would be in a MIDI system. I ripped em outta SPJr and converted em... It seems I got the conversion right for most of the instruments, but a few seem to be fucked up, specifically the second 'Rr' parameter seems to be too high for some instruments... if it seems this way, simply decrease the second 'Rr' parm and it will sound ok maybe, but if the instrument sounds fine, then leave it... this is 128 instruments here, that means out of the 666 you got 538 to create yourself... (you will probably never create this many...) 12) There is one other 'instrument' I included... it is called 'STOP!'... all this is meant for is stopping the output of any other FM instruments on a channel... (you put it in the muzik trak wherever you wanna stop output). To stop output on a digital channel, simply play a nonexistant instrument. 13) The digital samples are stored in extended memory... Thus this thing will refuse to run if you do not have at least 384k of the stuff... Notes on this thing to help you out: 0) This is sorta like a combo of my other composers, many keys are the same as them, many especially like composer 669... 1) The digital instrument directory MUST have a trailing backslash... 2) In the FM instruments, If 'C' is 0 then ALWAYS leave the second 'Tl' at 0. If 'C' is 1 then leave BOTH 'Tl's at 0. 3) If you set the Loop to an order at which there is no pattern, you will suffer!!! 4) There better be some filez in the digital instrument directory you specify or the thing will fuk up!!! 5) Changing an instrument sound in the FM channels takes a physical amount of time during playback, so for the sake of speed in playback in the game or demo or whatever, try to keep the instrument and volume changes in the FM channels down to a minimum... (that is if the previous note was on instrument 13 and volume B, another note on 13 and B would take faster than one say on 14 and B, or 13 and D, ect... 6) The octaves are 0-3 (4 actually cuz of the upper row of note keys) for digital, and 0-6 (7) for FM. If ya try to do anything for the digital channels with the octave above 4, it will automatically be adjusted to 3 (for the lower keys, 4 for the upper) 7) Heres some keys before I forget, = and \ for volume, / and * for octave, + and - for pattern, < and > for loop, ; and ' for tempo... 8) The '-c' switch sets the color palette for the composer, without it the default pal is used, but you can specify 0-6 as a substitute color palette. You can use numbers higher than 6 and even any letter or character or anything, but there are no defined color schemes for those so you might get some pretty weird colorz... 9) Use F12 to save the song for reloading l8r, ALT-F12 creates a plain bare bones data file which you have no use for... A) There are a lot of channels here, you dont have to use all of them on a song, but ofcourse all channels will sound better. One way is to first write the muzik with as many or as few channels as you need, then come back and add some counter-melodies on the free channels... B) The FM channels can very easily totally overwhelm the digital channels, so take care when composing a muzik... C) The digital and FM instruments are sometimes out of tune with each other, that means a mid-C on the digital instrument would sound out of tune with a mid-C FM... D) All the block commands of 669 are here, and ` and ALT-M too... And the first letter thing works in the instrument selection thing... E) Hmm, i was a little mistaken in 'B)', with good enough digital instruments, it is the FM that can be totally overwhelmed... oh well, you gonna have to try for yourself... F) This is a very nice driver and format I just invented, even if we want only FM or only digital muzik, you can do it with this compozer and I'll probably use the new driver to play it in the game or demo... Meaning when youre compozing your muzik with this, youre not LOCKED into using all the channels, but rather the channels are all at your disposal, do with them whatever you want to create good muzik... 10) Marking and copying tracks between digital and FM channels can be a little tricky cuz of the different octave ranges... 11) The instruments included are the standard MIDI instruments, grouped alphabetically instead of they would be in a MIDI system. I ripped em outta SPJr and converted em... It seems I got the conversion right for most of the instruments, but a few seem to be fucked up, specifically the second 'Rr' parameter seems to be too high for some instruments... if it seems this way, simply decrease the second 'Rr' parm and it will sound ok maybe, but if the instrument sounds fine, then leave it... this is 128 instruments here, that means out of the 666 you got 538 to create yourself... (you will never create this many...) 12) There is one other 'instrument' I included... it is called 'STOP!'... all this is meant for is stopping the output of any other FM instruments on a channel... (you put it in the muzik trak wherever you wanna stop output). To stop output on a digital channel, simply play a nonexistant instrument.