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Subject: Forth and Music
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Date: 13 Aug 90 03:45:21 GMT
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Category 6,  Topic 5
Message 10        Sat Aug 11, 1990
B.SUTTON1 [Brian]            at 23:57 EDT
 
For anyone that has a TI-99/4a, I have a routine that I came up with to write
music for it's 3 tone generators.  You can program each one independantly
(tone, length, volume) with a little working knowledge of how to read a music
staff.

I have used it compile songs directly from the sheet music.  Once started, the
music runs by itself & you can use your program to do anything else while the
music is playing (unlike BASIC).  It plays 3-part harmony  (as smoothly as you
like -- without the stilted sound you get from BASIC) and you can change the
tempo, etc.  You can also use the noise generator to create special effects.

I have used it to create cassette tapes for choir members, playing their
particular part louder than the others; seems to help them quite a bit  (our
choir is a little slow).  

It is written in the FIG adaptation by WYCOVE, inc., but I imagine it could be
fairly readily transported to TI-FORTH.

If you'd like a sample of the music, I have a Christmas program (with  music &
graphics) that has been in circulation for a few years now;  give me a holler.
                     -- Brian
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