Practically everyone in the Apple II community knows about Michael Mahon’s NadaNet and Applecrate Projects. Now he’s released RT.SYNTH, the Real-Time Single-Voice Music Synthesizer. Michael’s announcement follows:
After getting the 8-voice CrateSynth working, it became clear that running only on an AppleCrate severely limited its potential users.
So I’ve developed RT.SYNTH, a real-time single-voice music synthesizer for stand-alone Apple II machines. (Actually, it is for Apple //e’s and later, since it requires the “Any Key Down” keyboard sensing capability to sense the amount of time a note is played.)
It allows the user to select from up to 8 instrument voices, which can be played directly from the Apple keyboard. It is also possible to record and play back performances, and recorded performances can be saved to disk and reloaded.
I’ve included ten voices on the disk, and a program for configuring the set of voices available in RT.SYNTH.
If you’re curious about music synthesis on 8-bit Apples, download it and check it out!