ByteBeat as sample/instrument

[Alikberov]

May be now is time (old request) to use ByteBeat formulas as any sample (integrated is engine/player)?
This is way to the new features with complex sounds and tiny size.

• Pre-rendered samples before play
• Real-time sampling with more features

Respect.

[Saga Musix]

Adding the OpenMPT playback engine to any project already adds 1 to 2 megabytes (depending on the platform and exact configuration) to that project, which kind of makes the usage of bytebeats completely moot. Ironically, adding an interpreter for a bytebeat language would increase that size even further.

OpenMPT is the wrong tool for this.

[Alikberov]

Well, along with the sample editor through mouse and pen tool in MPT, I thinking (since 2010) about simple expression for mathematical drawing any sample in the editor.

In the web can looking for:

• ExprTk
• MuParser
• TinyExpr
• Janet
• Wren
• ChaiScript

P.S.: Just, like "nightly release" - for experiment, in OpenMPT is possible to add this feature?
Like goal - powerful OpenMPT Studio with integrated sample generator without any side utilities.
(I'm 15 years waiting for it. )

[Saga Musix]

If you want to have this feature in OpenMPT, write it as a VST plugin. Then you can use it in any other VST-capable DAW, too. OpenMPT is simply the wrong tool for size-restricted sample generation.

OpenMPT will probably get a sample generator at some point if the scripting support ever gets finished. But this won't be a realtime generator or anything like that, it simply creates a normal sample which is then saved to you module file.

[Alikberov]

But this won't be a realtime generator or anything like that, it simply creates a normal sample which is then saved to you module file.

Yes, I thinking about this too, when "shaded patterns" (abandoned unused patterns) using as pre-rendered samples (right click for context menu over pattern and item "render to sample", as example): In this case we can make rhythmics without periodical notes in each pattern in order, but with using one sample at the start of each pattern.

P.S.: I'm not musician, but with my hobby (programming) I thinking in the "program pattern", when I need for amazing sound or melody for something.
And "coding the music" - just easy in something cases vs rearrange lots of pattern.