SOME - New Version!

So, months ago I finished a new version of SOME. I haven't touched it since. I knew I was going to leave for a while, and before I did, I asked tweaker to release it for me, since I gave him a copy the moment I got it working.

I can't see that he did...bottom line is I should have done it myself anyway, but I was just busy.

So, here's the new version of SOME. It's kinda rad.

Features? Yes. There are.

Voice preview - a YM2612 emulated playback of the voice that you're currently editing. (sorry, no stop and play, just wait and listen :P)

TX81Z Sysex Import / Export - You can now import and export voices into a TX81Z format. TX81Z sysex patches are widely available and I've included a few that were included with SonicQX to get you started. Look on the internet for new sounds!

SonicQX (ymx) Import / Export - You can also import and export voices into Saxman's SonicQX format. Again, I've ncluded a few that were included with SonicQX to get you started. So congrats to all of you who use it.

More features....just take a look.

Download Here


What I would like to see:

- Comments/Suggestions/Requests
- A TX81Z AND SonicQX voices libraries made for each of the sonic games. Granted with SOME, you can only do sonic 1, but it would be a nice edition to have as SOME expands to other sonic games. Voices would be interchangable between all sonic games.


As a side note, I was graciously given webspace by shadowsoft, I can't remember who it was, but now I'm hosting it on webspace that I'm not really supposed to. Plus, I want to make a website for it, and hopefully a place where people can exchange their own voice sets for the game.

Anyway, have fun guys.

 

Yeah I didn't make any other changes yet.

 

The Installer is necessary in future editions. I'm using the installer for testing, and it was easier for me to just put up the installer rather than the executable and the help file, so that's what happened.

MML will not work. There's keywords that the YM2612 can support and there's several keywords needed to emulate S1 coordination flags that don't exist. The long and short is I'd have to create all that stuff anyway, and would have to make a graphical editor for people who don't care to learn MML, so it's best I just make a tracker. I would still have to "create" my own fileformat, but that's just doing a direct dump of my structure to a file. Way easier than creating keywords.

 

I actually hate trackers. I hate using them, I prefer notation or playing the actual songs. But a tracker is the easiest for me at this point. But I'd be stupid not to have MIDI importing at least. Well, that was the plan anyway. I may or may not allow using midi input to enter notes, at least if I do MIDI importing. That would prolly be a feature I do once I add support for the other Sonic Games and porting and such.

 

Well, I used actual TX81Z sysex dumps. and I'm exporting them correctly, so yes.

 

TX81Z is the sysex format.

 

Hmmm. I think I didn't make an exporter for it....I have no idea why not. I could have sworn I did.