10.04.2002
To me, this seems musically innovative. I am intrigued to hear it, even if it does sound a bit oversexed. I can empathize with this guy... I had to program the Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller to play Jingle Bells and Silent Night (you could attempt to switch between the two using interrupts) by counting clock cycles (2 MHZ=500 nanoseconds) and creating delay loops that would make sound out of a speaker by driving the speaker high and leaving it high for a time and then driving it low and leaving it low. Then you had to modify the loop so that it would make different frequencies (notes).It had a very video-game tone. it was also cool, because I finally figured out why a modem makes that annoying hissing, gurgling sound. It is an audio equivalent of the hexadecimal characters that are being sent over the phone line. I know because my code ran away at one point and made a sound just like it. Very cool. :)


