Author: kumokosi

Voice Editor Mode

MuSICA is consisted by 3 modes.

1. Text Editor Mode
2. Voice Editor Mode
3. Disk Mode

Here describes about commands of “Voice Editor Mode”

Press ESC key and then V on Text Editor Mode

Voice Editor Mode
* Voices means tone of sounds on MSX here

Voice Edit Mode has 3 modes inside it.
FM Mode
PSG Mode
SCC Mode

These commands are common through these 3 modes.

ESC Return to command mode
C Copy Voice(#of copy from->to)
S Swap Voice(#of swap from->to)
M Mode change(FM->PSG->SCC)
SPACE Increase #
N Decrease #
* Pictures are captured on 1.02A unofficial (English patched 1.02)

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FM
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*MuSICA 1.02A(unofficial contains unnatural translation and unusual abbreviation because of limitation of space(and my poor English). Refer below what means these abbreviations.
Total Level(TOTALLV)
Feed Back(FEEDBACK)
Envelope Type(ENVELOPETYPE)
Atack(ATACK)
Decay(DECAY)
Sustain(SUSTN)
Release(RLSE)
Rate Key Scale(RATEKEYSC)
Level Key Scale(LEVELKEYSC)
Tremolo(TRML)
Vibrato(VIBRATO)
Distortion(DISTORT)

Means of parameters should be reffered other documents
about YM2413(OPLL) on the Web.

Voice data is not saved with MML data.
Save voice data separately on Disk Mode when you edit voices.

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PSG
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Atack(ATACK)
Decay(DECAY)
Sustain(SUSTN)
Release(RLSE)

Tone(TON)
Noise(NOIZ)
Frequency(FREQ)

Means of parameters should be reffered other documents
about AY-3-8910(PSG) on the Web.

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SCC
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MuSICA needs SCC+

Snatcher”RA004″
SD Snatcher Sound Cartridge “RA011”

*I plan to make patch for normal SCC
Atack(ATACK)
Decay(DECAY)
Sustain(SUSTN)
Release(RLSE)

SCC can set wave form.

Set wave with editing binaries.

Means of parameters should be reffered other documents
about SCC+ on the Web.

Disk Mode

MuSICA is consisted by 3 modes.

1. Text Editor Mode
2. Voice Editor Mode
3. Disk Mode

Here describes about commands of “Disk Mode”

Press ESC key and then D on Text Editor Mode

MuSICA holds MML and voice data separately.
When you worked on MuSICA, save both.

Menu 1,3 “load/save MUSIC”

Save MML as .MSD file. This file is Ascii text data
and you can read it on PCs if change .MSD into .TXT.
When you save it, .MSD is automatically added so
input 8 characters only for file name.

Menu 2,4 “load/save VOICE”

Save Voices as .VCD file. When you edit voices on
Voice Editor Mode, you should save it separately.
When you save it, .VCD is automatically added so
input 8 characters only for file name.

Menu 5 “save BGM”

MuSICA can generate binary data (.BGM files) for
embedded purpose into games.
.BGM files needs loader or player programs
when you play.
When you embedded .BGM files into your programs,
BGM.BIN is needed. This file is not provided when you
ganerate MuSICA on Dante2. Get it on “MSX Magazine
Eikyuu Hozonban 1-3” or “MSX Disk Tsushin Issue 1(’90-10)”

MuSICA Editor Mode commands

MuSICA is consisted by 3 modes.

1. Text Editor Mode
2. Voice Editor Mode
3. Disk Mode

Here describes commands of “Editor Mode”

F1:Goto top
F2:Goto bottom
F3:Stop BGM
F4:FF BGM
F5:Play BGM

INS:Toggle insert/overwrite
DEL:Delete
BS:Back space
ESC:Enter Command Mode
CTRL+W:Scroll 20 lines up
CTRL+Z:Scroll 20 lines down
CTRL+E:Delete to end of line
CTRL+Y:Delete line
CTRL+O:Insert line

CTRL+P:Paste from buffer

*When you Copy or Move lines, strings remain in buffer. After loading another file, you can paste it.

*Put “_” on command mode (push ESC on MuSICA editor) to toggle width 80 and width 40. This mode is not so popular. (This picture captured on ver.1.00)

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What is this?
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This is English IPS patch for MuSICA 1.02. After applying this patch, messages are changed from Japanese into English.

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Usage
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example:
ips MUSICED.BIN MUSICED_102a.ips

*I reccomend your ips command options not to override your original file
*Check version before patching.
Version number is indicated on right bottom of screen.
” [MuSICA] ” ->ver. 1.00
“MuSICA1.02” ->ver. 1.02

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Caution
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*MuSICA ver.1.00 unofficial English version existed.
Both of 1.00(official) and 1.00(unofficial Eng. ver.) is
not applicable with this patch

*MuSICA ver 1.02 generated from unofficial English version
of Dante2 is different from 1.02 official.
If you have this version, patch MUSICEDDANTE2ETODANTE2J.ips
before patching 1.02a and make your file same as
1.02a official.

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Disclaimer
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* This is not official one!
* Some messages are not natual translation and contains unusual abbreviation because of limitation of space

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Contact
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@kumokosi at Twitter

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MUSICED.BIN Update history
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Official version
* 1.00
Bandled with
“MSX Disk Tsushin Issue 1(’90-10)”
* 1.02
Bandled with
“Dante2″,”MSX Magazine Eikyuu Hozonban1,2,3”

Unofficial patched version
* 1.02a 2017/3/21
Translated to English messages

MUSICED102a_ips.zip