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It's not that it's unfeasible. It's just that it would be "interesting" . As someone who started out composing via Piano Roll, I understand where you're coming from, I actually found the transition from Piano Roll to tracking quite smooth, although everyone's mileage may vary. This tracker will have support for custom rows and row highlighting, which would be the equivalent of setting your note grids, measures and to an extent triplets/nontriplets. For MIDI import, the fun part would be determining in code where the MIDI data/notes would go, which rows the notes should be placed. I'm not sure about designing an algorithm that could do so effectively without user input. Basically you'd have to specify the base tempo, the grid and such... and then there would probably have to be some quantization. Which means it would be best to compose in Piano Roll with all of this in mind. Of course I'm just spouting off my current idea for a solution to MIDI import, there could be and probably are better ways to handle it, I just would need to do more research. At any rate, I'm going to gauge public demand for this here and over at the Chipmusic forums. If it sounds like something a lot of people will use, I will find a way to get it working when the time comes. Finding out should be quick.

I've seen converters floating around that convert MIDI's to console music formats. I'm not sure something like this exists for the Genesis but... The logistics of implementing .MID support would certainly be interesting. While I'm on the subject, I'm already planning on adding support for Deflemask's song/instrument patch formats, Delek and I already had a talk about it. See the tracker I'm developing is designed to run on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive itself as opposed to running on a PC. So you can write music on the console itself with no additional hardware required except for a cart. What I'm trying to get at is in order to get MIDI file support of any kind for Prodigy, I would write a .MID to Prodigy format converter. The only way to get the data in the tracker though is to author PC software that can write song data to the Prodigy ROM file itself. Seeing as how I'm already going to have to do this to add Deflemask support, it might be worth the time to look into .MID conversion as well. It would certainly be a challenge.

No. At least not yet. But actual hardware MIDI support is in the Todo list.

Note: The name was recently changed from YMDj to Prodigy. Runs on real hardware. Soon you'll be able to write music on a Sega Genesis/Megadrive. SPECIAL THANKS: -Note: if you feel your name is missing from this list let me know- -Side note: if you would rather your real name or screen name be listed instead, please let me know- -Another side note: these are the people that have helped in some way with this project (info, donations, life lessons) -Final side note: This list is to be added to the tracker itself when the Options Menu is implemented- My fiancee' Deseree Scyhler Jazzmarazz aka Jordan A. Joslin Delek Matthew Janik Eudald Salarich monkeymook Professor Chuck Kelly Peter Swimm the mist toggles David DeGraw TmEE aka Tiido powerofrecall Chilly Willy Stef KanaedaFr neologix r57shell Nemesis Mask of Destiny Lazerbeat an0va L-tron Michael "Bibin" Moffit James Hansen Shirobon Originoo Draggon Esopus Michael Vallejo Bart de Jong Andrew Reitano mz3364 General Thanks: gendev.spritesmind.org Chipmusic.org - Main development thread http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/15355/prodigy-tracker-genesismd/ Prodigy Tracker - A Native Sega Genesis/Megadrive Music Tracker Prodigy Tracker, is a music sequencer/tracker programmed in 68k assembly and is in development for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. DEV TESTS/YOUTUBE VIDEOS New Video testing Portament Up, Down, Porta to Note, and Arpeggio tracker commands. Also tested are the PSG ADSR envelopes. Video cuts off before I can show more stuff because of Bandicam Time limit. Old Video demonstrating playback of a song I wrote. Currently: v0.20 Changed placeholder color scheme Changed font graphics More fixes. Implemented Portamento Up, Portamento Down, Porta to Note, and Arpeggio commands. Implemented Synth Editor. Implemented Playback Engine. Implemented FM channels 1-6. Implemented PSG channels 1-4. Implemented software envelopes for PSG channels. Fixed many bugs and crashing issues. TODO: Navigation improvements Gamepad button delay/speed improvements Button combo handling improvements Fix crash that sometimes happens on really low FM notes. Fix PSG note table routines Options menu Palette Editing Tempo Control Interface improvements (On/Off for synth 0 or 1 settings) (Off Left Right Both for panning settings FM) Remembering cursor position on Song screen Fixing playback timing to YM2612 timers instead of vertical_counter Tracker Commands DAC support Ch 3/6 special mode Groove support SRAM support Saving/Loading Live mode Look into CSM mode synthesis This is NTSC only for now. When the tracker matures, support for PAL will be added. EDIT: Jazzmarazz has confirmed this working well on a Sega Genesis model 3. Thank you for testing! EDIT EDIT: Corthax has confirmed this working on a Nomad. Red + Blue is difficult to read. Time for a color change. Thanks Corthax. DONATIONS: I'm now accepting donations via Paypal. Donations toward this project will be used to fund development. This means that your donations will go towards the costs of the hardware required for testing, cart runs, and keeping this project alive. Additionally if you donate, your name will be mentioned in the "Special Thanks" in the "About" section of the tracker when the Options Menu is implemented, please make sure I get your name! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=WYDWYQK5YNTNA&lc=US&item_name=YMDj%20Development&item_number=YMDj&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted