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the bbc had an amazing command, ENVELOPE, which let you shape the amplitude envelope of a sound. you can read more about it here: https://www.muzines.co.uk/arti
by zem 6mo ago
the bbc had an amazing command, ENVELOPE, which let you shape the amplitude envelope of a sound. you can read more about it here: https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/keeping-us-posted/3303 https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/keeping-us-posted/3303
as a kid i didn't understand much about how it worked; i mostly played around with it to get "laser" sound effects, but in retrospect it was astonishingly sophisticated for an 8 bit home computer. (which described a lot of the machine's capabilities!)
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoReading that comment I heard That Sound from the BBC Micro manual that they used to demonstrate the ENVELOPE command, the one with the rising and falling sequences of tones. I probably haven't typed that example in since I was in primary school, probably P7. I'll probably have to go and find an emulator now, and try it out again.
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoThis is what I was talking about? From the BBC Micro BASIC programming manual: ENVELOPE 1,1,-26,-36,-45,255,255,255,127,0,0,-127,126,0 SOUND 1,1,255,255