– download<\/a><\/p>\n It appeared on the latest Mozomedia Music podcast<\/a> ep, and I hope to stick to the plan of one new bit of Apple II music with each new podcast. As well as recording The Green Sheen, I also finally got the various audio cables I properly needed for the audio cards sorted out, so now I can make good on my promise to share a stereo recording (the former one was mono) of the Ultima IV title music being played through the Apple II’s Mockingboard:<\/p>\n Ultima IV title music<\/em><\/p>\n – download<\/a><\/p>\n Getting the cables set up properly also means I now have a mic in for the DX-1 sampler, and can record my own samples! I did a little test run of this, recording 4 sounds into a new ‘sound bank’ and saving them to disk. Here you can hear me playing back the samples using the Soundchaser keyboard to trigger them again. The sounds I sampled are an ’oh’, a vocalized ‘boop’, a click noise, and a quack noise.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n DX-1 custom sound samples test<\/em><\/p>\n – download<\/a><\/p>\n I hope to improve the sound quality with more careful, cleaner recordings of future samples, but overall I’m really impressed with DX-1. I’ll probably ending using it much more for music than the harsher synthesized sounds from the Mountain Systems cards (but I am still interested in experimenting with custom synthesized sounds one can create with the Soundchaser software).<\/p>\n On the graphics front, part of this usenet thread<\/a> pointed out that a jpeg-to-Apple-II-HGR-screen routine written in Java is part of the Apple II Game Server package<\/a> (I still need to try out the Game Server!), and I recently compiled that routine as a standalone .jar file (currently it just looks for the jpg in a hard-coded location – if I figure out enough java to add a file selector dialogue, etc., I’ll upload the improved jar to this site).<\/p>\n Here was the jpg I fed into it:<\/p>\n \n And here was the HGR result:<\/p>\n Not too bad – actually the photo makes some the artifacts not as noticeable, but even on the real screen’s still pretty nifty.<\/p>\n EDIT:<\/b> I think I really lucked out with the pallete of that particular image – NONE of my subsequent tests with this converter turned out that nice.<\/p>\n I may end up converting more jpegs to HGR screens for a project inspired by this intersection of pop culture and the Apple II:<\/p>\n So I did finally record a new piece of Apple II music, ‘The Green Sheen’, using DX-1 samples triggered in real time via the Soundchaser keyboard. Take a listen: The Green Sheen – download It appeared on the latest Mozomedia Music podcast ep, and I hope to stick to the plan of one new bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/apple2\/media\/spaceship1.jpg\" "\\"Spaceship")
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