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mkopack73 Senior Member Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261
Posted: 02:17am 07 Aug 2020
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Ok, so trying to add music to my 285 Rush game...
I have a MOD file for the music.
I have a few sound effect WAV files.
I also currently use a PLAY SOUND that adjust the frequency of based on the speed of the player's car.
However, while I can play the MOD + Wav (as Play Effect) at the same time, I can't seem to do the PLAY TONE sin waves for the engine sound at the same time.
Am I having to do the engine sound as a WAV and how would I adjust the sound to match the player's car speed? I guess if I could record it at different frequencies and then use the Play Effect interrupt to then read the player's speed at that time and load the next frequency and start playing that one and so on... But geez that's kind of ugly...
Can PLAY TONE work at the same time as MOD playback? And what's the real difference between PLAY TONE and PLAY SOUND? They seem very similar in description although PLAY SOUND seems to have more options available to it...
Just trying to figure out the right way to do a game's background music while also having various types of sound effects in the game...
matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8566
Posted: 07:32am 08 Aug 2020
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The sound system can do one thing at a time with the single exception of playing a WAV file at the same time as a MOD file is playing
PLAY TONE only allows sine waves but does allow timed output and will start and finish at the mid-point audio level to avoid clicks. Play SOUND has the capability of different waveforms but it is up to the user to start and stop each channel and waveforms will stop immediately on instruction
capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341
Posted: 12:17am 09 Aug 2020
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Ah, that's why my previous sound routines had sounded rough, if I play each sound for a whole number of cycles it sounds more like I intended.
print "zap sound, rough" for k=1 to 2 for n=800 to 100 step -20 play sound 1,B,q,n pause 10 next n next
play sound 1,B,O,300 pause 3000
print "zap sound, smooth" for k=1 to 2 ' multiples of 50 cycles per second for n=800 to 100 step -50 play sound 1,B,q,n ' 20ms is a 50th of a second pause 20 next n next
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