Actually, this could come in handy when using certain DPCM samples (for example, you may be using a snare sample where you'd like the noise channel to give it more emphasis). The popping noise can actually be a good thing if you know how to use it properly.
You'll also see this happen in the DPCM channel if you're alternating between Z00 & Z7F for each time a sample is played.
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not a bug, it's a quirk of the 2a03 (and MMC5 too, I guess) where the phase of the wave is reset. it's something you have to work around.
Interestingly, the latest release of ppMCK features a command to cancel the effect of phase reset, SM and SMOF. Perhaps something similar could be implemented in FT? If that's even possible.
im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.
Besides, I wonder why people are still calling it a bug; semiconductor chips don't get bugs. FamiTracker attempts to emulate the original hardware down to its chips' tolerance limits.
The clicking & popping that you get from such things as alternating the Zxx effect or using pitch bending effects is actually a hardware quirk in the original system's hardware & not a software bug, just as Dave said. There's no such thing as the perfect chip & even then; you still have to contend with the physics of wave propagation & electricity.
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Interestingly, the latest release of ppMCK features a command to cancel the effect of phase reset, SM and SMOF. Perhaps something similar could be implemented in FT? If that's even possible.
It is possible and I added it years ago but found that it wasn't widely supported by NSF players so I removed it again. Do you know if it works better now?
jrlepage wrote:
While we're at it, is the 2a03 bug also present in the MMC5? Or is that not supposed to happen?
Good question, I assume it's the same but I'm not completely sure. I have a MMC5 cart so I might check it when I have time.
Xyz_39808 wrote:
Is there a chart (me an my charts) that lets us know which notes exactly the bug works on? I've been getting it whenever I 3xx to or from A's or A#'s.
I don't know any lists but most are close to A and A# and some to D.
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