If you need me to make a console app in C++, I might be able to do it. Also if you want it on Mac OS X I can do that tooI'd really like to have this hodge podge of functions converted to discrete C/C++ console apps or C# one day. That would make them easier to just include in a make process.
Hey Clay, What version of Eclipse are you using? I'm using the "Ganymede" release. You can remove that line "import com.sun.xml.internal.ws.util.StringUtils;" this class is not even used!I'm getting a handful or errors which I'm a bit lost how to handle...
Sure, not problem. But I think I'll skip the MIDI convertion too, since MIDI is a real pain, the MS APIs are completely different. I'll rather look at a MOD converter.If you need me to make a console app in C++, I might be able to do it. Also if you want it on Mac OS X I can do that too
Yep, I've got Ganymede as well-- ripped out the import as you suggested... no more error.uze6666 wrote:Hey Clay, What version of Eclipse are you using? I'm using the "Ganymede" release. You can remove that line "import com.sun.xml.internal.ws.util.StringUtils;" this class is not even used!I'm getting a handful or errors which I'm a bit lost how to handle...
...and got rid of that! No more errors. So of course I chose to copy and paste the one "convertSong" line that was missing an argument (ikari) as my template.Also, you can delete the whole package named "com.belogic.uzebox.tools.patchmaker" (or in other words, all .java files under \tools\UzeboxTools\src\com\belogic\uzebox\tools\patchmaker and do a refresh in the IDE) That's only good if you have the MIDI interface anyways.
Anyway, figured that out and ran the converter finally!
! I'm wondering if its your sequencer that could add some additional crap that screws up the playback. There's not much bound checking on anything in the player, and most probably the cause of resets. So insure you don't use a patch (or note # for chan 4) whose number is greater than those you have in patches.inc. Same for the MIDI events/controller that must be supported and patch stream commands.Don't think so. It should cause some clicks or note cuts, since many notes are re-trigged rapidly on the same channel.If I left a cord or something in the arrangement would that cause a total failure like that maybe?
! And the tombstone writing... 
Entirely possible. I'm also pretty useless with Quartz Audiomaster. I just sort of flail around like a blind squirrel looking for nuts and finally beat it into something that looks usable.uze6666 wrote:Really sorry you have all those problems, not easy to be the guinea pig huh
Control messages? (I think there's some pitch bend or something in the track-- or portamento/glide... I don't remember what was up to the synth and what was in the MIDI stream!)Don't think so. It should cause some clicks or note cuts, since many notes are re-trigged rapidly on the same channel.
Cool! Thanks-- I'll PM it to you. I just used your patches-- first walk, then run.Send me your source midi file and the patch set your made(if any)? I think it's the fastest way I can help you on this one, since I really know what to look for.
Yeah, I was having fun with that one although I admit to stealing the idea for the graveyard and pumpkin from stuff I saw online. More than four sprites per line will be really cool if you get it going, but there's a lot of trickery to be done even without it. I used all the background tiles, so I had to use sprites for text, but that turned into a kind neat effect in itself. I've got lots of sprite tiles and flash left at the moment too. (Sprites are just the bats, skulls, text, and candle flame.) You can kinda steer the bats with the joypad too, but they're bats and all so they're kinda figgety.ps: Holly crap, awesome little demo, you really did all that stuff!?! And very clever animation to never get more than 4 sprites per scanline
Glad you liked the tombstone, I wasn't sure if that would be recognizeable text or not...Realized that I didn't really respond to this-- no worries at all! In fact the kernel runs so damn well I'm amazed. Really solid for a beta release!uze6666 wrote:Really sorry you have all those problems, not easy to be the guinea pig huh
Now that is *very* possible. (Queue blind squirrel behaviour.) QuartzAM is f-ing complicated to figure out from scratch, so I really don't know how my patch numbers are working (or not). I wonder if it's just using the general MIDI software synth ones. Could certainly be the problem...So insure you don't use a patch (or note # for chan 4) whose number is greater than those you have in patches.inc. Same for the MIDI events/controller that must be supported and patch stream commands.
Yeah, for me, this whole MIDI thing is a mess. I wanted to have it done in C/C++, basically because it's generally more known (accessible?) than Java. Though afterward, I could not find any good MIDI libraries for C. Moreover MIDI is hard to grasp at first and, in the end, not the best tool when you have only 4 tracks. That's why I think a MOD tracker would be much better and easier tool. And last, but not the least, you would be able to hear your song exactly as it would sound on the console in the end.About making the MIDI file conversion into a C++ console app, you said you might go with MOD, or that the MIDI conversion tool in Java isn't fully completed yet? I'm just trying to catch up on things, I was away for three days, I'm not sure if this is exactly right. And why do you want it to be converted into a C++ app anyway? Just curious.
