remix:

original for reference:

this is my first tune using sid2midi (the freeware version) which i’m pleased to report works well with darwine so you don’t need to fire up vmware or parallels.

oh and i like booming bass so i suggest you turn on the subwoofers or switch to your bose on the ear phones to pick up that sub!

as a parting comment, itunes lost my entire music library (well the database, still have the music) whilst I was exporting from garageband. I wonder if its trying to tell me something?

whilst this track is not quite chip music, but it’s a start. i nabbed a midi composition of cauldron’s theme music from vgmusic.

yes there are some cliched sound effects, but garage band is a new toy and i’m trying everything out oh a bit of trivia for you, if the cauldron music sounds familiar, its cause its derived from the sound track from halloween!

click on the play icon below to listen to the remix

at some point, i’d love to use sid2midi to make my own midi files (the vgmusic library are compositions based on the original game music). better still get pump sidplay into the line of garage band. the sid chip is of course my preferred chip, because it powered the commodore c64!

I had to give up on this project, I could get the LEDs to light up, but the most I could get out of the piezo speaker was faint clicks… The piezo was working cause this bit of code worked when it was just rigged up to power and the output pin.

/*
Author: booyaa (booyaa.org)
Changelog
20080128 - tidied up code to prep for noise making!
*/

int speakerOut = 9;
int val = 0;
int i = 0; // was 4
int maxInputs = 7;

int buttons[] = { 4, 5 ,6, 7 };

int tones[] = { 3830, 3400, 3038, 2864 };
int count = 0;

void setup() {
  for( i=4; i<=maxInputs; i++) {
    pinMode( i, INPUT );
  }

  pinMode(speakerOut, OUTPUT);

  Serial.begin( 9600 );
}

void loop() {
  for( i=4; i<=maxInputs; i++) {
    val = digitalRead( i );

    for ( count=4; count <= maxInputs; count++ ) {
      if ( val == 0 && i == count ) {
        Serial.print( "button = " );
        Serial.print( i );
        Serial.print( " val = " );
        Serial.print( val );
        Serial.print( " count = " );
        Serial.println( count );

        // this is where the music code will go, which comes from this sketch
        // http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutotial/KeyboardSerial
        digitalWrite(speakerOut, HIGH);
        delayMicroseconds(tones[count]);
        digitalWrite(speakerOut, LOW);
        delayMicroseconds(tones[count]);
      }

    }
  }
  delay (500);
}

It’s boppy, it’s got girly vocals and has suspect song titles

I think it would be a hoot if whilst waiting to be famous they were web designers!