Ilmenit, known for his impressive size coding intros and the game "Adam is me" just released a first version of his cross-platform music tracker for composing sample-based music targeting Atari XL/XE 8-bit computers.
Features as stated on Github:
- 3-channel polyphonic playback using VQ-compressed samples
- 3 octaves (C-1 to B-3) with pitch control via 8.8 fixed-point multipliers
- Pattern-based sequencing with variable-length event encoding
- Real-time audio preview that closely matches Atari hardware output
- Export to Atari executable (.XEX) via MADS assembler
- Self-contained project format (.pvq) with embedded samples
- Multi-format audio import โ WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, M4A, and more
- Timing analysis to verify IRQ cycle budget before export
- Optional per-note volume control (at lower sample rates)
๐ย VQ tracker on Github
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