Help finding music in SMUS or 8SVX format for Amigavision

[Peter]

Hi, I have found myself playing with Amigavision and want to add some music to a slideshow I am making but it only plays SMUS or 8SVX files and anything I try and convert to this format plays too slowly for some reason?

Can anyone point me in a direction where I might be able to download some music in the required format for Amigavision....

Any help appreciated.

[AmiClassic]

Have you checked if 'smus' songs from Sonix's disks also play slowly?

[Matt_H]

SMUS is the native format of Deluxe Music (and Instant Music). It comes with some demo songs, and there’s also 2 data disks with more songs and instruments: Hot & Cool Jazz and It’s Only Rock & Roll.

I think Bars & Pipes can convert to/from SMUS. If there are tempo problems with the conversion you can use Deluxe Music to fix them. Between DMusic and B&P you should be able to convert any MIDI file to SMUS.

Because MOD became the Amiga’s preferred music format there’s not a whole lot of “vintage” SMUS files floating around, but there are some on Aminet. Old BBS and PD libraries will probably have some, too.

8SVX is a waveform format, more commonly used for samples than full songs. The instruments that come with DMusic are all 8SVX. There are probably a bunch of utilities on Aminet to convert to 8SVX.

[robinsonb5]

Originally Posted by Peter

Hi, I have found myself playing with Amigavision and want to add some music to a slideshow I am making but it only plays SMUS or 8SVX files and anything I try and convert to this format plays too slowly for some reason?

I don't know if the music player uses a VBlank interrupt for timing, but is it maybe a PAL vs NTSC thing?

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by Peter

Hi, I have found myself playing with Amigavision and want to add some music to a slideshow I am making but it only plays SMUS or 8SVX files and anything I try and convert to this format plays too slowly for some reason?



Can anyone point me in a direction where I might be able to download some music in the required format for Amigavision....



Any help appreciated.

Which version of AmigaVision do you have? Version 2 supported AREXX ports and could be used to activate an external player like HippoPlayer.

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by AmiClassic

Have you checked if 'smus' songs from Sonix's disks also play slowly?

Sonix used a different instrument format but AmigaVision 2 let you override the default instruments with 8SVX files if you needed to. I got Sonix files to work with it that way.

[Peter]

Thanks for the replies guys... been fun playing with sonix and trying out different converters on Aminet but no real progress going that route for me to be honest. I have been using the Execute command in Amigavision 2.4 and have found some success in going out to an external program (play16) to play the IFF music I converted originally and this works fine and in perfect time but wont let the slideshow progress until the music finishes... I am now going to try and run this music part as a sub routine in the slideshow - my hope is that the pictures in the main routine will just run along as per the instructions I set.... I will experiment further... I think it might be a case of actually reading the Amigvision manual.... (tomorrow)

[Peter]

Finally got a little slideshow created... getting the music running in 8SVX was not as complicated as I first thought - just use the execute icon with a cli run command in a custom screen (using play16 in C drawer as a music player), this allows the slideshow to progress... it was fun using AmigVision.

Here is a link... hope you like Woody Allen...

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[Samurai_Crow]

Cool! I watched the slideshow. What do you think of programming with custom requesters and mouse clicks?

[Peter]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

Cool! I watched the slideshow. What do you think of programming with custom requesters and mouse clicks?

A bit above my abilities I think - I do want to explore the Arexx possibilities in AmigaVsion though... just keep getting distracted by... Battlechess of all games! Have not played it in years!