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Post by supernovamfgg » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:51 pm

@MC Jimmy: I would try to do that, however that would be rather difficult with different kinds of instruments and DPCMs.
Anyways I have just uploaded the iOS version where you can export Famitracker compatible text files, expecting to be in the App Store update around a week or two.
And if you're still here HertzDevil, please let me know how to use Game Maker's buffers to synthesize sound streams. I am interested to have more accurate emulation on the sound waves.
And one more thing, at some point I am planning to rewrite the whole app where users can create instruments, add effects, toggle channels, and more.
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Post by ollaxe » Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:14 pm

Yay you brought this to iOS!
I like how it sounds when you exit the app with a song still playing on the iOS version
Hi! I'm not really active here anymore but I still make music. Nowadays I mostly make dubstep with emphasis on good melodies and chord progressions.
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Post by supernovamfgg » Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:41 am

> ollaxe wrote: I like how it sounds when you exit the app with a song still playing on the iOS version

That was done on purpose.
Here's an update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7rM7G9tHGE
You can now edit notes faster on a pop-up piano roll. (Android Play Store only as for right now)
As for audio, it turns out that Game Maker's buffering sounds worse (now it has too much static noise). So I'll stick to samples at this point. However I am planning to add an ability to copy/paste note.
@MC Jimmy: that would be rather impossible since I have to use buffering to manipulate all of the instruments/effects/etc. If I can make GM's buffering system without all of the noises I can possibly do that (but I have to rewrite the whole app itself).
Last of all here's my goals at this point:
- Implement note copy/paste functions
- Play the sample while interacting the piano roll
- Make a "piano roll" for noise/beats
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Post by supernovamfgg » Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:01 pm

Sorry for the bump but I have made a major update on 8Tones!
Users can now publish (of course with a mini in-app purchase payment (depends on what country you're at)) and listen music from a server I coded!
My iPhone is reading data from the server:
I have already updated the Android version and iOS version update coming soon in around a week!
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Post by Roflo » Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:30 pm

Awesome! I'll give it a try.
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Post by 333charles333 » Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:26 pm

I made an account just to ask you to put this app back on the iOS AppStore for iPhone.
It's been removed and I'm heartbroken I didn't get to try this amazing app.
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Post by ollaxe » Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:49 pm

This app seems to have been pulled from both the App Store and Google Play. Is there any reason for this? I really liked this app, and I recently switched to Android and can't download it anymore, which I think is a real shame.
Hi! I'm not really active here anymore but I still make music. Nowadays I mostly make dubstep with emphasis on good melodies and chord progressions.
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Post by PinoBatch » Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:03 pm

The Amazon Appstore link still appears to work.
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Post by ollaxe » Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:18 am

Oh, cool! Wait a minute... Amazon has an App Store? Like Google Play and Galaxy Apps wasn't enough to begin with?
Anyway, I actually tweeted the creator of 8Tones two weeks ago, and he was nice enough to upload the APK for 8Tones to his website for me. I'll link his tweet if anyone wants to get 8Tones, but doesn't want to download another app to download this app: https://twitter.com/NovaGT7/status/927328612331634688
Hi! I'm not really active here anymore but I still make music. Nowadays I mostly make dubstep with emphasis on good melodies and chord progressions.
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/ollaxe
Twitter: twitter.com/ollaxe
Discord server: dis.gd/tK7uRnc
I'm also on Spotify. Search "OllAxe" and you'll find me.
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Post by supernovamfgg » Sat Sep 24, 2022 3:21 am

I was browsing again to find my old posts and spotted this. Yeah unfortunately they were pulled off from the stores due to market policies:
- At that time I could not afford to keep it on the iOS App Store since it is $99/year. I used to live paycheck to paycheck.
- Google stopped supporting older SDK and I can no longer update it because the app is written in Game Maker Studio 1.4.9999. Yoyo Games (which owns Game Maker) moved on to supporting Game Maker Studio 2 (which is now Game Maker).
At this point, I felt like it is pointless to update the app since there was too much latency because all of the timing is based on 60 frames per second and I cannot execute certain functions in real-time. I have my considerations porting it to JS but I am not sure about that yet. Though it would be a lot easier to implement this on multiple platforms. I have to see since I am not a full-time software developer and I don't have much time to spare.
Also, I've been reading HertDevil's source of 0CC Famitracker: https://github.com/HertzDevil/0CC-FamiTracker . If I wanted to write a successor to this, I might as well write it properly. I'll update this topic if I happened to start on it.
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