HoustonTracker 2.30

NEW/CHANGES

• note table tuned to ~440 Hz (and some notes produce more useful noise fx as a result)
• ch2 duty sweep (5xx, xx > 0x80) now has a configurable parameter (xx & 0x7f)
• effect 7xx (auto-chord) now has two modes: unsynced (regular) and synced (octave chord)
• channel volumes rebalanced
• slowed down ch3 slides, 3xx now works like 2xx (xx is no longer inverse)
• 9xx no longer disables 3xx
• new effect: ch3 grind (enabled with 6xx, xx>0x80)
• old Axx has been ditched
• new Axx effect: set phase offset ch3
• Synth Mode: hold current row
• add display of last used savestate
• add pattern loop playback mode

BUGFIXES

• fixed user drum input glitch
• fixed major bug in keyhandler
• reset player when clearing worktune

HoustonTracker 2.20

NEW/CHANGES

• new effect: 7xx - auto chord ch2
• Exx is now the "Extended" fx command - execute up to 5 fx commands at once (old E00..E03 is now E80..E83)
• Bxy now has added "loop section" function
• more fine-grained tempo control
• Copy/Paste keys are arranged in a more consistent/safe manner (check the manual for details!)
• (somewhat) reduced noise during row transitions
• improved fx handling

BUGFIXES

• fixed wrong Drum panning (was inverted)
• faulty executable checksum calculation fixed (was causing errors with TI-Connect)

HoustonTracker 2.10

HoustonTracker 2.10

NEW/CHANGES

• channel 1 now has variable duty cycle, too
• new effect: 4xx - set duty/noise mode ch1
• old 4xx (toggle duty cycle sweep) has been merged in to 5xx (set duty ch2)
• old Cxx (set drum mode) is now Dxx
• old Dxx (set vol ch1/drums) has been removed (no longer possible for technical reasons)
• new effect: 8xx - execute note table ch3
• new effect: 9xx - glitch channel 3.
• new Cxx effect: note cut ch1
• TI-82 Parcus/OS 19.006 support
• ALPHA mode is now one-shot, ie. it is turned off after an ALPHA mode action has been performed
• sound loop now has cycle-exact timing except if drum modes 2x-4x are used
• 3xx now uses inverse values (0xff = slowest setting), and is deactivated with 300 instead of 200.
  The old 300 effect can be achieved with command 9FF instead.
• 2xx/3xx no longer trigger on rest notes.
• "glitchy" drum modes no longer output sound on rows without a drum trigger
• AutoInc is now off by default

BUGFIXES

• fixed recovery from failed save attempt
• fx pattern 0x3f was previously lost during save, fixed
• note pattern 0x7f was inaccessible from sequence screen, fixed
• fixed broken loop point setting
• improved keypad debouncing on Plus models
• mode indicators were incorrect after loading/zapping a tune, fixed

HoustonTracker 2.00

Original release.