Beepola 1.05.03

Special FX Beeper Engine

• Supports note sustain settings
• 2 tone channels
• 1 percussion channel, with 4 percussion sounds.   

Phaser1 Beeper Engine

• Full 5 octaves for both tone channels
• Channel 2 is a programmable phasing synthesiser, allowing up to 100 unique instruments per song
• 1 percussion channel, with either 8 high-quality digitally sampled percussion sounds, or 9 synthesised drum sounds available
• Has none of the detuning effects that are present in many other beeper engines.

The Music Box Beeper Engine

• Small player routine (approx. 217 bytes, depending upon the features selected at compile time)
• 2 tone channels
• Fixed note lengths, and the fact that it does not use an Interrupt Service Routine mean that this tone generator is well suited for producing 2 channel in-game music. The "play next note" routine call be called at regular intervals from within a main game loop, or from an IM2 interrupt routine, to achieve song playback while a game or other code is running.
• Clean-sounding square wave tones.

The Music Studio Beeper Engine

• Small player routine (approx. 214 bytes, depending upon the features selected at compile time)
• 2 channels, one of which may contain percussion
• 13 percussion sounds
• Sawtooth-style synthesized tones.
• Fixed note lengths, and the fact that it does not use an Interrupt Service Routine mean that this tone generator is well suited for producing 2 channel in-game music. The "play next note" routine call be called at regular intervals from within a main game loop, or from an IM2 interrupt routine, to achieve song playback while a game or other code is running.

The Savage Beeper Engine

• 2 tone channels
• 1 percussion channel with 5 drum sounds
• Ornaments (up to 31 unique ornaments per song)
• Glissando effect (range of 255 possible values) for both channels
• Skew and skew XOR effects to change the timbre of the sounds for both channels   
• FX effect to support a range of addition sound effects for each channel.

 v1.05.03 - 28/Aug/2010

1.  Toolbar hints are now displayed while a song is playing.
2.  Fixed a number of issues related editing ornaments in the Savage engine.

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