Re: [stella] Atari 2600 Sound Scale

Subject: Re: [stella] Atari 2600 Sound Scale
From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 17:19:04 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997 crackers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Here's how the tones produced on a 2600 sound to the human ear.
> Granted, I've only mapped this out for Sound Type #1. I'm assuming that the
> fequency proportions are the same for all the other sounds.

I don't think they are necessarily the same from distortion to distortion. 
Not to belittle your work, but getting accurate cent values away from
perfect pitch is more useful than the subjective slightly, very, and close
adjectives. 

However, you did establish octave numbers for the notes, which is very
useful.

> Hope this is helpful. The higher you want to have the pitch, the fewer notes
> You get to choose from.  And with all these funky 1/4 and 1/8 tones, you
> can get some pretty neat east-indian music happening.

One use is when you get close to the end of the scale, notes get very
close together (less than 1/2 a tone), which could be used to simulate
vibrato more effectively than with a sound generator that was evenly
chromatic. 


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