Re: optimisation - tools (2019)
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:05 pm
@tulamide
Thanks for pointing that out - I'm curious to do a few experiments of my own now. I must admit I was merely parroting "gospel" from the old SM days that I don't recall having ever tested empirically.
You're making me nostalgic now!
My first serious electronic/computer music project was an audio sampling system for my Memotech MTX512 (also a Z80 machine). It was embarrassingly crude by today's standards - a DIY peripheral with 8-bit A/D and D/A converters and some basic audio amps, and assembly code where I had to use no-op instructions to make sure that every signal path was the same length to keep the sample timing stable. I've no idea what my top sampling rate was, but I bet not much more than a couple of kHz, and only enough memory for a second or two of sampling time. I've been playing little musical riffs using the sound of myself burping ever since!
Thanks for pointing that out - I'm curious to do a few experiments of my own now. I must admit I was merely parroting "gospel" from the old SM days that I don't recall having ever tested empirically.
payaDSP wrote:AH ZX spectrum
You're making me nostalgic now!
My first serious electronic/computer music project was an audio sampling system for my Memotech MTX512 (also a Z80 machine). It was embarrassingly crude by today's standards - a DIY peripheral with 8-bit A/D and D/A converters and some basic audio amps, and assembly code where I had to use no-op instructions to make sure that every signal path was the same length to keep the sample timing stable. I've no idea what my top sampling rate was, but I bet not much more than a couple of kHz, and only enough memory for a second or two of sampling time. I've been playing little musical riffs using the sound of myself burping ever since!