Archive for the ‘music’ Category
FLXMP: First Version Released
I didn’t want to do this that early. But I realized that I need a proper version control and I intended to release the XM Player I was recently talking about under the MIT License anyway. So, better sooner than later. I named it FLXMP which stands for Flash Extended Module Player. I could come [...]
In: music, programming · Tagged with: AS3, flxmp, Module, music
XM Audio, Second Try: Success!
After my previous capitulation in front of Extended Module playback via Flash, I could not keep my hands off that topic. I started a second attempt and rewrote the whole code from scratch. This time I used a more flat (less object oriented) approach with less function calls; plus: I made some research and profiling [...]
In: music, programming · Tagged with: AS3, flash, FlodPro, Milkytracker, Module, music
Fail: Audio :(
I’ve invested much time in the development of a playback method for XM files in Action Script. I’ve achieved some results but I’m afraid that fixing those performance issues I encountered would take much more time than I’m currently willing to invest. My Module Library won’t make it into the game. Realizing this was quite [...]
In: music, programming · Tagged with: AS3, FlodPro, Module, music
Module Instruments Implemented
I just finished the implementation of all instrument features incorporated in the Fasttracker 2 extended module format. This includes: playing wave samples as notes (ok, that’s quite obvious) finetuning volume and panning control volume and panning envelopes instrument vibrato I’ve added a quick little demo below. You can click on the keyboard picture below and [...]
In: music, programming · Tagged with: AS3, Module, music
Extended Module Player in AS3
Music and sound are the most file size bloating assets when making flash games. If you want your game to have a low file size, you need to get rid of >5MB mp3 files. So I decided to write an extended module player library for my game. The XM format is a tracker format introduced [...]
In: music, programming · Tagged with: AS3, FlashDevelop, Milkytracker, Module, music
Back from Rock am Ring
We had fun at the Nürburgring. It was a nice extended weekend with my girlfriend which featured the following: music lightshows a suprisingly good-humoured Jonathan Davis tents crowd rain mud more mud garbage cold wind drunken people more drunken people cooking coffee in the car canned ravioli mating cry of humans in the wild (“Helga!”) [...]
In: music · Tagged with: music, Rock am Ring
