[Coco] Full Midi Synthesizer on a CoCo

[Chad H]

As someone already mentioned, I believe the best answer probably lies with a microcontroller interface.  We already see a Atmega Microntroller feeding the CoCo SD card data as in the "CoCoSDC"  There have been other Coco Projects involving these controllers too.

Take this project that has video demonstration of a Arduino (i.e. Atmega Microcontroller) working a 4-voice WAVETABLE MIDI audio system.  If you started with something like this ...   

http://tinyurl.com/7m9a58h

It would just be a matter of figuring out how to have it get it's commands and data from the CoCo on a custom cartridge PCB.  Seems very doable to me.  As I'm a big music fan and used to be BIGG time in the old .MOD and .ST3 (ScreamTracker) PC sound formats, which was kinda sorta a simulated wavetable in some regards, I would love to take a stab at this myself and work on one.  However I've already got unfinished projects all over the place :/

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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 11:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Full Midi Synthesizer on a CoCo

Yes but there seems to be more complexity that what I initially thought.

There must be a way to improve CoCo sound capabilities in an economical way that can be utilized for Music and Games and take some of the burden of the cpu.

A microcontroller solution seems the closest bet.

Nick

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Subject:Re: [Coco] Full Midi Synthesizer on a CoCo

 If the device only accepts serial, like the Speech/Sound Pak, then it would be nice to interface it like an RS232 pak, with memory access versus bitbanging. POKE POKE POKE.

 Otherwise, one could take one of these and but MAX232 on it to get it to RS232 levels and just plug it up to an RS232 Pak…

 Nick, is that your desire? To stream MIDI to it? It would be less overhead than making music directly, I am sure.

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