Part 3: Action (hopefully)

[angros47]

Sounds reasonable, could you mention some examples for such features?

Oscillators: sine wave, triangle wave, pulse/square wave, sawtooth wave, wave with custom harmonics, white noise

Filters: low pass, high pass, notch, band pass

Modulators: AM, FM. Phase Modulation, Ring Modulation

ADSR envelope generator: applicable to wave amplitude, to filters, to modulators

Wave sync (a simple feature used on the SID audio chip... very easy to implement, and useful to produce several new waveforms

Ability to play the produced waveform, or to save it as a .WAV file.

With similar feature, would be possible to create almost any possible sound effect: several simple SFX generators use some of those algorithms.

[badidea]

Can something in the section "Music/Sound, Audio/Video" on https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.ph ... =ExtLibTOC be used?

[Imortis]

Can something in the section "Music/Sound, Audio/Video" on https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.ph ... =ExtLibTOC be used?

I think the idea would be to use things already available on most systems rather than require FB compiled EXEs to be buldled with extra dlls.

[dodicat]

Can something in the section "Music/Sound, Audio/Video" on https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.ph ... =ExtLibTOC be used?

I dowloaded fmod.dll
https://www.dllme.com/dll/download/9290/fmod.dll
It took 30 seconds.
The example code works perfectly.
I added some graphics in the loop
(example 2)
Perfect.
The .exe file is 124 kb.
Conclusion:
I got my sound sorted out in one minute.

[badidea]

Awesome, I think the wiki needs more mentioning. In 10 years of freeBASIC coding now and then, I never looked much at the wiki, but there is a lot of useful stuff. It gets harder and harder to find things on the forum.

[BasicCoder2]

I got my sound sorted out in one minute.

Just did the same. It seems to work fine for me as well. In the past I never needed or at least bothered with using sound in any demo code. At the moment I am using the SDL library. Not sure how fmod compares with SDL_mixer.

[Imortis]

Can something in the section "Music/Sound, Audio/Video" on https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.ph ... =ExtLibTOC be used?

I dowloaded fmod.dll
https://www.dllme.com/dll/download/9290/fmod.dll
It took 30 seconds.
The example code works perfectly.
I added some graphics in the loop
(example 2)
Perfect.
The .exe file is 124 kb.
Conclusion:
I got my sound sorted out in one minute.

fmod is only free for non-commercial use. If you wish to sell your product, you need to buy a licence from fmod.

[angros47]

That's the reason why I suggest that a native FB sound library should not be like FMOD, FBSound and similar ones: there are already several of them. A native library should be more in line with the "All-Purpose" philosophy.

[Imortis]

Since the sound library is already in the planning process, I have started another thread to discuss using namespaces for the different parts of the language.

FreeBASIC Namespace Project