Over the years I received numerous requests from people that wanted more: more music, more features, more playable formats, you name it.
Eventually I began working on a complete rewrite of the app (this time for real), and, realizing that each year another chiptune or MIDI website went offline, I decided to start archiving them for preservation.
Today, 10 years after the first release, I think it's finally time for the new, nicer version to hit the shelves. It's now called Pixeltune and yes, now you can actually turn down the volume. :)
Hope you like it!
I have a SC-8820 - it can simulate a SC-55/SC-88/SC-88 Pro (the SC-55 in particular is what a lot of VGM MIDIs were made using) and I'd love to be able to use it with this collection :)
PS. I also have a SC-55, nothing beats the original!
Sadly it’s quite hard (and expensive!) to get a real SC-55 in the UK :/
The 8820 is the same architecture etc as the SC-55/88/88 Pro, so the simulation is basically swapping out the sample sets. I can’t tell the difference :)
My next target is a MT-32 :)
I checked this and it doesn't seem to be working for me - I can select it as a GM synth in the settings and select the right MIDI port, but it's not actually playing out via WebMIDI - it sounds like it's still using ADLMidi. Same behaviour in both Firefox & Chrome.
If I refresh the page after that, it just then keeps skipping tracks instantly. I'm using https://pixeltune.org/?b=ZD1UcmFuc3BvcnQgVHljb29uIERlbHV4ZS9... as my test tracks.
edit: just noticed there's some debug logging in the JS console. Here you go: https://www.pastery.net/naegce/
The "Invalid DataView length" error seems like a parsing error... maybe try using a different set of songs?
Anyway, I'll take a deeper look at it later!