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MIDIBox AY (YM) [AY-3-8910, AY-3-8912, YM2149]

Started by lemonhorse, August 06, 2008, 12:08:25 PM

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MIDIBox AY (YM) V2
http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=midibox_ay_ym_v2


MIDIBox AY (YM) V2 @ The midibox.org Forum
http://midibox.org/forums/topic/15678-midibox-ay-ym-v2/


MIDIbox of the Week (MBAY V2 of IGI)
http://midibox.org/forums/topic/16260-midibox-of-the-week-mbay-v2-of-igi/

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The MIDIbox AY 3 8912 V1
The MIDIbox AY 3 8912 is stuffed with a General Instruments AY-3-8912 sound chip (3-voice Sound Generator (3x square wave), noise, one global envelope). The Control Surface based on a C64 Keyboard and a 4×16 LCD.
http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/midibox_ay_3_8912
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General Instrument AY-3-8912
The AY-3-8912 Sound Chip is a 3-Voice Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instruments_AY-3-8912


AY-3-8910 / 8912 (PSG) Data Manual.
The General Instruments AY-3-8910 / 8912 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) data Manual.
http://users.rcn.com/carlott/ay3-8910.pdf


AY 3 9810 Datasheet
AY 3 9810 Datasheet (pdf / 8 Pages)
http://www.speccy.org/hardware/datasheet/ay38910.pdf


AY-3-8913 Datasheet
http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/gottlieb/technical/datasheets/AY_3_8913_datasheet.pdf


Datasheet download: -- YM2149.pdf -- AY8910.pdf -- AY8930.pdf
http://www.ym2149.com/

http://www.ym2149.com/ym2149.pdf



AY-3-8910
Der AY-3-8910 ist ein sehr erfolgreicher Soundchip, der von General Instrument in den frühen 80-er Jahren entwickelt wurde.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AY-3-8910


This is Project AY
for those who appreciate computer generated chip music, are some of the best moments of the General Instruments AY sound chip.
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/index.htm


Playing samples on the PSG
http://map.grauw.nl/articles/psg_sample.php


AY3-891x
Pinouts
http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/parts/ay3891x.htm


AY-3-8910/12/13 (Datasheet)
AY-3-8910/12/13 Programmable Sound Generator Datasheet
http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/parts/ay3891x_datasheet.htm


ST SOUND
Hearing the AY-3-8910 chip
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n7/stsound.html


AY-3-8910, AY-3-8912 and YM2149
The site is dedicated to popular sound chips: AY-3-8910, AY-3-8912 and YM2149.
http://bulba.untergrund.net/main_e.htm


AY-3-8912
Description of the PSG - The Programmable Sound Generator
http://www.playvectrex.com/designit/chrissalo/psg1.htm


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Link

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-hard plAYer- is an 8 bit tunes hardware player, which allows you to listen to the same melodies you could listen to in some of the 80's home computers and videogame consoles. In next versions It will also work as MIDI synthesizer. It's audio sound generator porcessor is the General Instruments AY-3891X the same one that was used in vintage computers like the Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Spectrum ZX, MSX, Oric, or Colour Genie, and consoles like the Intellivision or Vectrex. The YM-2149 was a Yamaha's licensed version of this processor.
It can play songs saved in .YM file format on a standard SD or MMC card. These .YM files can be obtained wiht most part of Amstrad CPC, Spectrum ZX or Atari ST emulators. Other vintage computers audio file formats can also be converted to .YM standard. So you only have to capture the melody of your favorite videogame, or demo with one of these emulators save it into the memory card, and play it with -hard plAYer-. You can also use one of the many trackers that exist for these computers to compose your song with the emulator. It has a graphical interface wich allows you to control it's different options and also to explore the content of the card to select the song you want to play.

These are some of the features of this audio player:

      -music is played by a real AY-38912 Programable Sound Generator
      -nearly everything is controlled through a monochrome 128x64 LCD graphical display with a 4 push-buttons interface
      -can play unpacked and deinterleaved YM files, stored in a SD or MMC card formatted in FAT32
      -has a tiny file explorer to move through the folders to select the song to play
      -simple audio looping options
      -playing speed can be adjusted
      -the independent channel volume knobs allow the user to control the A,B,C channels volume
      -a MIDI input port is available to use the board as MIDI synthesizer ( it has also a MIDI output port )
      -stereo RCA or stereo mini jack output connectors

(Date: 2008/2009)

http://tolaemon.com/hplayer/

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YM File format
WARNING: If you're not programmer, you can skip that page. It contains technical information and it's totally unusefull if you only want to listen YM tunes.
YM file are specific file to use with ST-Sound or any ST-Sound based player. You can find some ".ym" files for the amiga but both formats are really different. If you're looking for a great collection of real ST-Sound YM file, go to the biggest YM database on the internet.

YM file format is a "multi format". Basically, YM file are made to produces some classic ATARI chip tune. But YM can produce some strange and custom music too. ...
http://leonard.oxg.free.fr/ymformat.html


Link

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YM2149 Hardware Project
http://www.mirkoroller.mynetcologne.de/ym2149hard/


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Audio Overload v2.0
The current release of Audio Overload supports music in the following file formats:

   AHX - Commodore Amiga
   AY - Amstrad CPC/Spectrum ZX/Atari ST
   COP - Sam Coupe
   DSF - Sega Dreamcast
   GBS - Nintendo Gameboy
   GSF - Nintendo Gameboy Advance
   GYM - Sega Megadrive/Genesis
   HES - PC Engine
   HVL - Commodore Amiga
   IMF - PC-compatibles, various Apogee games
   KSS - MSX
   MDX - Sharp X68000
   MOD - Commodore Amiga
   NSF - Nintendo NES
   NSFE - Nintendo NES (enhanced tags)
   ORC - TRS-80 Orchestra-90
   PSF - Sony PlayStation
   PSF2 - Sony PlayStation II
   QSF - Capcom QSound
   RAW - PC-compatibles with an AdLib
   ROL - PC-compatibles, AdLib Visual Composer
   S3M - PC-compatibles with a GUS or SoundBlaster
   S98 - NEC PC-98
   SAP - Atari XL/XE
   SCI - PC-compatibles, various Sierra games
   SNDH - Atari ST
   SPC - Super Nintendo
   SPU - Sony Playstation
   SSF - Sega Saturn
   VGM - Sega Master System/Game Gear
   VTX - Spectrum Vortex Tracker
   WSR - Bandai WonderSwan/Wonderswan Color
   YM - Amstrad CPC/Spectrum ZX/Atari ST

http://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm




ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/music/ay/games/

Link

#3
SOME EXAMPLES OF AY chip MUSIC FOR ZX SPECTRUM 48K
http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/aymusic.html

Sample Tracker v2.0d
http://tcg.speccy.cz/index.php?pg=tools-en

AY file format
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http://shiru.untergrund.net/1bit/pivot/entry.php?id=91