Moonblaster Wave for Moonsound

Mbwave is "constant" in development, the latest version is now mbwave 1.16

If you have suggestions and/or bug reports mail: m.delorme@chello.nl

Bug(s) still in MBWAVE:
- MBwave crashed when using some types of MIDI-keyboards and with other
MIDI-keyboards MBWAVE doesn't responde to Key off. (Help needed on this!!)

MoonBlaster for MoonSound Wave revision history

R.Schrijvers stopped development of mbwave and mbfm. I decided to continue the development of mbwave. Version 1.05 and higher are updates by NWO 1997-2004.

Version 1.16

Release date: 29/05/04 (Update by N.W.O)

Improvements / other modifications:
- Added Solo support in pattern editor. Press space bar to set current
  channel to solo, additional channels can be activated with CTRL-W.
  To activate all channels press space again on the channel that was set
  to solo.

Bugfixes:
- 2 settings Variables were not saved. Don't use your old settings file!!

Version 1.15

Release date: 26/04/01 (Update by N.W.O)

Improvements / other modifications:

- Added Toshiba Keyboard Support.
- Added Trim sample function in Tone editor (F9)
NOTE: Sram defrag routines need to be modified. You have to save and reload
the waves to free SRAM no longer used by samples.
- Removed some unused code.

Bugfixes:
- Some variables overlaped each other.

Version 1.14

Release date: 28/01/01 (Update by N.W.O)

Improvements / other modifications:
- Add Rom Tone copy function in tone editor (F9).

Version 1.13

Release date: 24/04/99 (Update by N.W.O)

Bugfixes:
- Fixed: Sometimes Moonblaster crashed on a Turbo R while saving settings.
Improvements / other modifications:
- Master volume can be altered during playing by means of CTRL-up & CTRL-down
- Enhanched the key scan routine (while playing).

Version 1.12

Release date: 19/09/98 (Update by N.W.O)

Bugfixes:
- The base frequency was not always correctly displayed.
Improvements / other modifications:
- New CMD option implayed for changing the base frequency during playing.

Version 1.11

Release date: 03/08/98 (Update by N.W.O)

Bugfixes:
- The base frequency was not set correct when loading an MB1.4 song.
- Changed standard volume that was set by clear song to 28 (from 31).
- Removed the drive letter from the screen that you saw after loading a song.
- The note data was written to the wrong channel (only if you didn't change the
channel before typing) after loading a song if the channels displayed
before loading was for example channel 13 until 24. This is okay now.

Improvements / other modifications:
- During playing: Cursor left is now fast forward and cursor rigth restores
old speed.

Version 1.1

Release date: 29/06/98 (Update by N.W.O)

Bugfixes:
- MB crashed (DOS2) if you accessed an empty directory. It's okay now.

Improvements / other modifications:
- Little speed improvement in the replayer, sram load and wave menu part.
- You don't see the directory <. > anymore, because this 'directory' is only usefull in DOS.
- Replaced all the 'sla a' instructions with 'add a,a'
- The opl4 wait routine is faster now.
- Removed the Herz Speed equalizer.
- Mbwave routine uses the opl4 interrupt now instead of the VDP interrupt.
You can enter a 'base frequency' between 1 and 133 (48Hz until 100Hz)
(CTRL-F in edit mode and Cursor Up & Down in play mode (realtime speed
editing)).
- Removed some unused code in the replayer.

Version 1.08

Release date: 08/06/98 (Update by N.W.O)

Improvements / other modifications:
- Little speed improvement in the replayer part. MB waited for tone header
loading also when this was not really nessecerely.
- Added Volume transpose, now you can decrease/increase all the volumes in a
block/channel with [ for down and ] for up.
- Load routines use DOS2 routines now for loading (if pressent ofcourse), this
means that you can load files from CD now.
- The 60/50hz speed equalizer setting is saved in the configuration file now.
- Added master volume setting (CTRL-J). You can set the volume of the Mixer
unit of the opl4 now. This setting is also saved in the configuration file.

Version 1.07

Release date: 25/04/98 (Update by N.W.O)

Improvements / other modifications:
- Added delete all tones function (finally) in the tone editor (F10).
- Little speed improvement in the replayer part.
- If there is no opl4 connected the program will abort.(This feature was gone)

Version 1.06

Release date: 12/01/98 (Update by N.W.O)

Bugfixes:
- Reverb is now reset when you clear,load or restart a song.

Improvements / other modifications:
- Added two extra octaves for the 44.1Khz freq.Tabel.
- Added LFO editor. It's now possible to alter the LFO,VIB
and TRM when playing the song.
- The default volume of the waves is changed from 31 to 28.
- 3 new drum sounds added to the drum kit. (D#8,E8,F8)
- New sram check routine implanted.(Thanks to Koen van Hartingsveld)
- Step size of thee sample addresses in the tone menu changed from 1 and 10
to 1 and 100, so now you can select the rigth sample offsets mutch faster.

Version 1.05

Release date: 28/10/97 (Update by N.W.O)

Bugfixes:
- MBWAVE crashed in R800 mode, it works okay now.

Improvements / other modifications:
- Added Reverb option in the wave menu's
- Added Random panning option in the wave menu's
- The "clicking" of the voices in the wave menu's is gone.
- Added Reverb on/off option in the song editor
- Added LFO switch in the song editor
- Improved speed for the Z80 in the replayer

Version 1.04

Bugfixes:
- Fixed wrong transpose error bug.
- It was possible to select 48 waves, but only 32 were allowed in a song!
(Why didn't anyone notice this before??!!)

Version 1.03A

Release date: 11/12/95

Bugfixes:
- Version v1.03 was completely unreliable. My harddisk interface destroyed
several bytes in each file!
- When a stereo event was handled, the pitch bend/modulation should continue.

Version 1.03

Release date: 28/11/95

Bugfixes:
- Fixed channel on/off bug in channel 1. (thanx Marcel!!)
- When a volume event was handled, the pitch bend/modulation should continue.
- The 22050 Hz freq. table in the replayer differed from the one in the
wave editor. The freq table in the replayer is shifted up one octave.
- When HOME was pressed in the stereo settings menu only the first 6
channels were reset.
- Fixed memory freeing bug when CTRL-STOP was pressed. (DOS2 only)
- RAW mode wavekits are supposed to be handled as EDIT mode, but they were not.
- After naming a tone the audition didn't work untill it was reinitialised.

Improvements / other modifications:
- Included option to load 16-bit samples with little endian and big endian byte
ordering.
- Modified frequency of snare B7 in GM drum patch
- Block marks are removed when a song is cleared.

Version 1.02

Release date: 01/10/95

Bugfixes:
- Fixed another bug in the memory defragmentation. Samples > 16K were
destroyed during fragmentation.
- Fixed bug with disk stop. On Philips MSX computers the drive kept spinning
in the tone and wave menu.
- Did something *really* stupid. Forgot to switch speed test off before
uploading!

Improvements / other modifications:
- Added extra snare drum!

Version 1.01

Release date: 27/09/95

Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug in replayer initialisation. After loading a wavekit from the
main-diskmenu you had to press F3 to initialise the waves.
- Fixed major bug in memory defragmentation. It worked only with a music
module inserted! Oops, used wrong I/O port, forgot to use my constant...
- Fixed major bug in sample end address check. It was possible to set the
address out of the sample range with 8-bit samples.

Version 1.00

Release date: 23/09/95

Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug in replayer. Detunes caused notes to be played in the wrong octave
sometimes.
- Fixed typo in one of the frequency tables. Brigth Piano and Elec Piano 2B
were wrong with note F#6.

Improvements / other modifications:
- Improved MIDI routines for Z80 speed.
- Added settings scan in song info menu
- Found some extra samples in the ROM! Some new drums were added to the
GM drum wave, the Telephone wave also contains Bird Tweet now and the
Bass & Snare drum waves now contain two different Bass/Snare drums.
- Improved pattern-print routine. It shouldn't slow the music down anymore.

Version 0.92

Release date: 20/07/95

Bugfixes:
- Fixed major bug in crunch and loadroutines of EDIT and USER mode songs.
Songs > 16K weren't handled correctly.
- Fixed bug in block copy. Copying wasn't possible when the block ended
on channel 24.
- Fixed Atmosphere B and Fifths B

Improvements / other modifications:
- Improved SRAM check (I hope). It should work with sizes >128K and all
variable configurations that are possible with the new MoonSound
generation now.
- Added Play-time errors. These are errors that can occur when a song is
played. These checks can and will be removed in the separate replayers
to gain some extra speed.
- Added transpose.
- Included the drive selection in the main disk menu too.
- Many people were complaining about a crashing computer when they started
MB without an OPL4 connected. Since this cannot be solved, I just won't
start the program without OPL4.
- Wait-timing is improved. This was possible because of new technical OPL4 info
sheets. No difference will be noticed though, except that it will
probably work safer/better on 7.16MHz.
- Added support of songs > 32K with USER and EDIT mode. Since it is almost
impossible to make such a song, I didn't think it was neccessary at first.

I would like to thank the following persons for their USEFUL bug reports and some for routines or ideas:

- Simon Vis
-
- Patriek Lesparre
- Stefan Boer
- Peter Burkhard
- Radik ...
- Koen van Hartingsveld
- Jos van den Biggelaar
- Hans Chossen
- Laurens Holst