Arkos released a new Beta version of their cross-plattform tracker “Arkos Tracker”. With the Arkos Tracker you can compose your chiptune music for the Amstrad CPC (and a variety of other computers), compile them and use the player for the specific system. The sound playback is done via emulation of the AY-3-891x soundchip on your PC or directly on an Amstrad CPC via the CPC Booster+.

You can download the new Beta version from the tools section of the Arkos homepage.

Changes:

• Ability to drag’n’drop AKS, AKI, SKS files into the Arkos Tracker.
• Ability to limit the Pattern Viewer refresh rate in order to improve performance.
• Load Song and Import SKS options are now mixed into one single option.
• Corrected a bug that could make the Pattern Viewer not refreshed after having entered a volume, pitch or instrument.
• Corrected a bug that would make the player use a wrong frequency when changing the replay frequency.
• Corrected a bug that would make sounds not evolve on Speed 1 while adding them in the Pattern Viewer.
• Slight improvement of the replay routine (shouldn’t be noticeable in 16 bits, but should in 8), after Dadman noticed a bug in the 8 bits replay.
• A few cycles optimisations of the player (thanks to Grim/Arkos).
• Spectrum player redesigned, corrected, and optimised by Grim/Arkos (using the “Molusk” song, max TM is 5300t, average is 2400t).
• MSX player test debugged by Syx. MSX DSK updated by Syx.
• Source of the CPCBooster client and management now included (Sources/CPCBooster).

Arkos released a new Beta version of their cross-plattform tracker “Arkos Tracker”. With the Arkos Tracker you can compose your chiptune music for the Amstrad CPC (and a variety of other computers), compile them and use the player for the specific system. The sound playback is done via emulation of the AY-3-891x soundchip on your PC or directly on an Amstrad CPC via the CPC Booster+.

You can download the new Beta version from the tools section of the Arkos homepage.

Changes:

• Complete coding of the sound generating and outputing by myself. The emulation is more accurate, and will allow the implementation of samples and Sids in the future.
• Plug in your best MIDI Keyboard or any MIDI-In device, play and record your music with it!
• 150hz and 300hz replay modes are now available. They are very slightly slower than on a real CPC. Nothing you should notice…
• CPCBooster output is now very accurate.
• Ability to save Interleaved/non-Interleaved YM6 format.
• AKStoBin: a command line software to converts any AKS song into a binary to use on hardware (warning, you still need .Net to use it).
• STKtoAKS: a command line software to converts any STarKos songs into an AKS song (warning, you still need .Net to use it).