Synth Keyboard in BASIC

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Poe
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Synth Keyboard in BASIC

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This is my first program I've written in BASIC and the first application I've written that runs on an 8-bit machine, so I really enjoyed doing it.

It mostly allows the user to use their keyboard to call the FMPLAY command a lot. It's not very good as a proper instrument. :? It can only play one note at a time, it's not very responsive, and it lags in between notes. But it's seems to be stable and running without any errors. I think it'll help new users like me discover what all the various instruments you can load onto the YM2151 sound like.

I made it using the BASLOAD utility, so a big thank you goes out to Stefan who I understand is the author of BASLOAD. Very exciting to learn that tool was available so I could forget about managing line numbers all the time :lol: .

The source code can be found here:
https://github.com/aalexander05/x16-basic-synth

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