Show HN: Emailcore – write chiptune in plain text in the browser(cattheory.net)
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Show HN: Emailcore – write chiptune in plain text in the browser
https://www.cattheory.net/emailcore/index.html
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This is awesome! Took me a sec to understand how to edit or just copy paste your other examples to try them out, but the overall simplicity of it is rad. Excellent little project you made
Would be nice if the instructions were on the webpage, even better, an intro to chiptune and where to find more information.
Cool none-the-less... would be interested in fiddling with it if I knew how too.
Cool none-the-less... would be interested in fiddling with it if I knew how too.
Songs are written in plain, 7-bit safe text. Every line makes a voice/channel.
The examples given on the page should hopefully illustrate every feature, but as a quick overview: Sounds are specified using Anglo-style note names, with flat (black) keys being the lowercase version of the white key above so as to maintain one character per note. Hence, a full chromatic scale is AbBCdDeEFgGa. Every note name is interpreted as the closest instance of that note to the preceding one. +- skips up or down an octave, ~ holds the previous note for a beat, . skips a beat, 01234 chooses one of 5 preset timbres, <> makes beats slower or faster (for all channels), () makes the current channel louder or quieter. All other characters are ignored.
If you come up with a good tune, please share it in the comments!