A MIDI-to-TIC-80 converter.
"The mission, the nightmares... they’re finally... over." - CT-5385 (presumably about switching to TIC-MIDI ;) )
- Utilizes up to all 4 audio channels simultaneously
- Has variable audio resolution to use more or less space in exchange for audio quality
- Can map midi tracks to sfx as dictated by the user, allowing for different instruments
- Has variable volume
- Sets tempo and speed to match input
- Can insert music into existing cart
- Can use any memory bank
- Can only write a single file to a single track
- Disregards multiple MIDI channels
- Only considers the following MIDI messages:
set_tempo,note_on,note_off - Only uses the Master Volume TIC-80 command
- Does not generate sfx and waveforms
Make sure Python (3.8+) is available on your system.
Install the dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Then, simply invoke the script:
$ python tic_midi.py input_file -o output_file
To learn about the settings you can use, invoke the script with the -h flag:
$ python tic_midi.py -h
When playing the music with your lua code, set sustain=true in your music function call, since the converter currently doesn't re-play notes when starting a new frame.
A sample MIDI file, and the cartridge produced with it, can be found in the example directory.
Copyright (C) 2023 Wojciech Graj
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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Portions of this software are copyright of their respective authors:
- mido, Licensed under the MIT License; Copyright (c) Ole Martin Bjørndalen