Features

[dannye]

• [x] Song Viewer
  • [x] File parsing
  • [x] Support modern pokecrystal macro syntax
  • [x] Bonus: Handle TCG-compatibility macros used by pokered-crysaudio
  • [x] Validate song header
  • [x] Detect invalid macros/arguments
  • [x] Detect nested loops/calls
  • [x] Render notes for all channels
  • [x] Visualize loops and calls with wrapper boxes
  • [x] Visualize settings changes with colored flags
  • [x] Visualize unreferenced labels
  • [x] Visualize tempo changes
  • [x] Customizable timeline
  • [x] Multiple zoom levels
  • [x] Key labels
  • [x] Note labels
  • [x] Configurable Measure ruler
  • [x] Adjustable grid line spacing
  • [x] Theme picker
  • [x] Full screen

• [x] Song Player
  • [x] Real-time playback with reasonably accurate tempo, volume, vibrato, etc.
  • [x] Loop infinitely
  • [x] Start/resume from any point
  • [x] Detect when subsequent iterations of the main loop are not exactly identical to the first
  • [x] Mute individual channels during playback
  • [x] Process custom channel 3 wave_samples.asm
  • [x] Process custom channel 4 drumkits.asm
  • [ ] Support remaining miscellaneous commands: pitch_sweep, duty_cycle_pattern, pitch_offset, stereo_panning

• [x] Song Editor
  • [x] New Song dialog with customizable options
  • [x] Channel selector (only the selected channel may be edited)
  • [x] Multi-note selection
  • [x] Rectangle select
  • [x] Basic note operations (move, resize, put, delete)
  • [x] Pencil Mode (draw and erase notes)
  • [x] Edit note properties (speed, volume, vibrato, etc.)
  • [x] Undo/Redo
  • [x] Resize song
  • [x] Make and unmake loops and calls
  • [x] Loops: Reduce, Extend, Unroll, Create
  • [x] Calls: Delete, Unpack, Create, Insert
  • [ ] Interactable settings flags (select, delete, move)
  • [ ] Transfer selection of notes from one channel to another
  • [ ] Add/Remove channels

• [ ] Extras
  • [ ] Channel 3 wave editor
  • [ ] Noise instrument editor
  • [ ] General sound effect editor
  • [ ] MIDI device input/MIDI file import

[nehochupechatat]

What do you think of implementing a General MIDI export? With instrumentation similar to Joao Buaes' MIDIs

[dannye]

What do you think of implementing a General MIDI export?

It isn't really useful and doesn't really serve the purpose of this editor. The primary goal of this editor is to directly edit/export *.asm song files for immediate use in a pokecrystal-based project. So that you can press "Save" in Crystal Tracker and immediately run make on your project and instantly have a new ROM file with your new song modifications included.

MIDI editors exist for creating MIDI files.

[nehochupechatat]

Ah, I understand. What about implementing a "traditional tracker" view? I.e OpenMPT, Furnace, etc Some musicians prefer to work that way + your tracker is already based off OpenMPT

[dannye]

There are several problems with trying to imagine this working with a traditional tracker view. The Pokemon song data format is not well suited for it.

Most fundamentally is that in Pokemon, the song channels are completely independent from each other. One channel can loop a small pattern many times while another channel plays a long sequence of all unique notes. It's also possible for a channel's entire body to be much shorter than another channel's body (ie, the short channel may fully repeat many times in the time that it takes the longer channel to play once). In fact, the channels are so independent that there is no requirement that all the channels loop back to the start at the same point in time -- or that they even loop back to the same point at the beginning.

So the concept of a "row" can't really apply here in the way that it would need to for a traditional tracker view to be effective.