Yesterday I got my YM2149F Turbo Sound x3 synth from HobbyChop and today I added serial out support for it 🙂
Category: YM2149
YM2149F Turbo Sound x3
@crunchypotato is working on a new 3AY version of his synth and Vortex Tracker 3.0 will have support to output to it!
VT3 Plugins
Plugins...
YM2149F MIDI Synthesizer
My YM2149F MIDI Synthesizer arrived today! I'll be adding support for it to Vortex Tracker 3 using serial out and MIDI out.
Thanks to @crunchypotato for the great workmanship on this synth. I'll be posting about it again very soon!
VT3 3AY
3AY Support is in.
Vortex Tracker 3.0
Here's a preview video of the music tracker currently in development by the Rusty Pixels team!
New Features:
- C# Port of the original by S.V. Bulba, Ivan Pirog and Dexus
- Open source under the MIT license
- OpenGL rendering
- OpenAL audio
- Spectrum and VU bars
- 3AY support
- Built-in OrGen Editor
- YM2149 Synth slave support
- Spectrum Next slave support
- MIDI Out support
- Plug-ins
YM2149 Synth
I received my YM2149 Synth from Catskull Electronics a few days ago! Thanks to David for the cool extras included 🙂
Having lots of fun with it! I've modified David's fork on Github to enable it to play back YM files over serial. It uses a C# app to parse the YM file and stream it over USB with the Teensy in Serial mode.
Cool thing is there are lots of cool songs in YM format that you can play. My musician friend SpaceFractal uses Vortex Tracker to make tunes and it can export to YM format for playback on the YM2149 Synth!
UPDATE: You can download YMPlayer from here