as a kid i didn't understand much about how it worked; i mostly played around with it to get "laser" sound effects, but in retrospect it was astonishingly sophisticated for an 8 bit home computer. (which described a lot of the machine's capabilities!)
Reading that comment I heard That Sound from the BBC Micro manual that they used to demonstrate the ENVELOPE command, the one with the rising and falling sequences of tones. I probably haven't typed that example in since I was in primary school, probably P7.
I'll probably have to go and find an emulator now, and try it out again.
Helps if the videos worked. It's from 2010!
the bbc had an amazing command, ENVELOPE, which let you shape the amplitude envelope of a sound. you can read more about it here: https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/keeping-us-posted/3303
as a kid i didn't understand much about how it worked; i mostly played around with it to get "laser" sound effects, but in retrospect it was astonishingly sophisticated for an 8 bit home computer. (which described a lot of the machine's capabilities!)
Reading that comment I heard That Sound from the BBC Micro manual that they used to demonstrate the ENVELOPE command, the one with the rising and falling sequences of tones. I probably haven't typed that example in since I was in primary school, probably P7.
I'll probably have to go and find an emulator now, and try it out again.