Comments on: The Apple II Gets a Music Keyboard

By: Taggart Snyder

Taggart Snyder — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:26:53 +0000

Wow! That brings back memories. I remember mucking about with the Soundchaser system back in college *blah-blah* years ago. Fun stuff! Thanks, for the memories!

Taggart Snyder

By: Mozomedia Music Podcast – Ep 7 (Enhanced) : Mozomedia Music

Mozomedia Music Podcast – Ep 7 (Enhanced) : Mozomedia Music — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:57:30 +0000

[...] of Nowhere, from Auricular Records. – ‘Boxy’s Lament’ by J.J. Sonick, a new Apple II composition. Email us at music@mozomedia.com See you next [...]

By: MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – EP 7 : Mozomedia Music

MOZOMEDIA MUSIC PODCAST – EP 7 : Mozomedia Music — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:56:12 +0000

[...] of Nowhere, from Auricular Records. – ‘Boxy’s Lament’ by J.J. Sonick, a new Apple II composition. Email us at music@mozomedia.com See you next [...]

By: JJ Sonick

JJ Sonick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:28:41 +0000

Timethy, sorry for the late reply, but congrats on getting that Nibble stuff – I want to get that full collection soon, too. And that project sounds great – definitely let me know how it goes!

By: Mozomedia Music Podcast - Ep 6 (Enhanced) : Mozomedia Music

Mozomedia Music Podcast - Ep 6 (Enhanced) : Mozomedia Music — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:45 +0000

[...] and more. – J.J. Sonick goes 8-bit with ‘The Green Sheen’ – an instrumental made with an Apple II computer. – Avjit unfolds some atmospheric free-jazz in ‘Now I Know It’s Raining’ – [...]

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EE : Mozomedia Music — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:36:09 +0000

By: Timethy

Timethy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:38:51 +0000

I bought the Nibble Mag collection as a gift to myself! Here is the command summary for Sound Wizard:

& – Displays command summary
&VOLUME V – Adjust volume. V should be 0-20
&BEEP Pitch,Dur – Short beep. Pitch and Dur are 0-255
&WHITE Pitch,Dur – White Noise, with average Pitch
&TRILL Pitch1,Pitch2,Rate,Dur – Alternates between Pitch1 and Pitch2; a smaller Rate means faster trill
&FADE Pitch,Rate,Velocity – White noise, with volume gradually adjusted by an amount equal to Velocity (-127 to 128)
&SYNTH Pch1,Vlct1,Pch2,Vlct2,Rate,Dur – Alternates between Pch1 and Pch2, while adjusting them by Vlct1 and Vlct2

My best Sound Wizard program was a Wargames-style hacking game that simulated dial-up modem sounds. I want to find that disk!

Right now I’m working on my own fast block graphics library based on Nibble’s “Graphics Workshop” columns around 1983/1984. I’m using Merlin assembler, playing with Y-lookup tables right now. It will have an ampersand interface for Applesoft, and with any luck it will work alongside Sound Wizard. This was a dream of mine many years ago, I’ll let you know if I am successful.

By: JJ Sonick

JJ Sonick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:05:21 +0000

Hi Timethy, glad you’re playing with Sound Wizard – it is fun! I only have the program as well (I’ve bought the “Nibble Books” pdf collection from http://www.nibblemagazine.net , but not the full magazine collection yet), so all I’ve gleaned is from that little text that prints out when the routine first loads, that lists the commands and the ranges for the parameters, and I experimented aroudn with that. When I finally get the Nibble Magazine pdfs, I’ll post a summary here of the command descriptions.

Hope your IIc adventure goes well, too.

By: Timethy

Timethy — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:07:23 +0000

Hi there!

I’m playing with my old //c machines again, and trying to build some fun programs. I remember typing in the Sound Wizard binary from Nibble Magazine! I downloaded it again and what fun. I definitely want to play with this some more. I don’t have the original article anymore, do you know the parameters for Sound Wizard? The demo BASIC program doesn’t explain anything.

Enjoy your adventure