Sound channels?

SynapticBytes

I’ve been sidetracked since yesterday thinking about audio for my game. With the current Humble Bundle software sale, I came across Rytmik, which, although quite single-minded in its purpose, looks like it might be a fun and easy way to try and build some chiptunes to go wth my levels.

So that got me wondering, what limitations there are getting out of Rytmik and into MiniMicro. Trying to read between the lines in the MiniMicro cheatsheet, is multitrack music possible? For example, can I play a background beat continuously, and then overlay separate melody tracks depending on what’s happening in the game? Or would I have to score completely different files with the full song for each change I wanted to make?

I’m not sure if that’s what the mix command is for, or whether thats just for combining two sounds into one to, for example, make a harmony from two individual sounds, which then always plays as one complex sound afr being mixed.

Thanks.
Russell.

jstrout

The mix command is for building up more complex synthesized sounds. I'm not familiar with Rytmik, but it seems like it's probably outputting a sound file, which you would load with file.loadSound. In that case, you don't have any use for .mix.

But there's no problem at all playing multiple sounds at the same time. Check out the drumMachine demo; it does exactly this (and is fun to play with too!). So sure, you could overlay separate melody tracks (though getting the timing just right might take some careful coding).

SynapticBytes

Hmm yes timing could be a problem. Forgot about the demo. I’ll have a look next time I’m
On my computer. Thanks.