Skull Head World is now available on Google Play!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.negspect.skullheadworld

You can also join the discord conversation.

Skull Head World is now available on Steam!

Skull Head World is the game I have been working on for the last few years, and it’s finally available! It features procedural animation, realtime synthesized audio, music that is generated based on gameplay, hardcore topdown bullet hell melee brawler action and lots and lots of skulls.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1191690/Skull_Head_World/

The new version has some bugfixes. Most importantly regarding lockups when receiving the same midi note multiple times without noteoff.

The fancy old key tracking module was removed with an axe and very simple and efficient method was put in it’s place.

Click here to download Atlantis, get presets, skins, read the manual, all that stuff

Atlantis 0.9r 32 bit
Atlantis 0.9r 64 bit

you may need to re-select your skin after the upgrade.

This version fixes some bugs with combiners and lfo 2, mostly regarding midi CC control.

Hani at United Deviations Music found the ancient bugs, and helped me test the fixes. PSA is a nice song he made with Atlantis.

It’s cold outside now, and no snow yet… So, I have no excuses. Here’s a little tool that I cooked up to share with old-school fast tracker 2 heads that play with beatmaker 2.

xi2bmk2 will rip through your dusty old .xi instrument collection, and convert it to a shiny new .bmk2 and .wav collection.

Some notes:

• xi2bmk2 will operate recursively on an input directory that you specify. The first folders that it encounters will become the category names in the .bmk2 file.
• You can use the .wavs for whatever you like, but the tuning information, key maps, and loop points are all stored in the .bmk2 xml.
• Since fast tracker‘s envelopes were so radical, they are not converted to the standard ADSR that beatmaker 2 uses.
• Stereo pair instruments (identified by two files, *L.xi and *R.xi, in the same folder, with matching keymaps and samples) will be magically welded back together into a single stereo instrument.

You can download it here.
Enjoy!

I got a tablet laptop recently, and I have to say, Atlantis is a treat with a stylus.  And it even works in Vista.  Goodbye mouse!

You can download Atlantis 0.9j here and read the manual at https://jeremyevers.com/atlantis

Hani didn’t like the clicking sound the routing engine was making in filters-per-voice mode.  So, I fixed it.  Now filters in filters-per-voice mode are always running, just like the global filter.  You may notice a slightly different decay sound- this is the filter running.  Before it would stop running when the envelope decayed, and any resonance would be cut (click) and continue on the next note (click).

This will consume more CPU power in polyphonic mode, so be sure to turn the number of voices down to the lowest useable level that you can get away with, or disable filters-per-voice mode entirely.  You can adjust these settings in the config dialog.

I also optimized the monophonic and arpeggio modes, so they will recieve a performance upgrade in this release.

You can download Atlantis 0.9i here and read the manual at https://jeremyevers.com/atlantis

Enjoy!

I’ve also updated the Atlantis Manual pdf.

You can download Atlantis 0.9h here and read the manual at https://jeremyevers.com/atlantis

Here’s a list of what’s new:

• Repeatverb and Destroyverb shapers
• Pan shaper
• Browse button for Data Folder in config dialog
• Fixes for waveform save bugs in some hosts (Cubase 3.1.1, Phrazor)
• Manual updates

The Repeatverb and Destroyverb are nasty little reverberation algorithms that are based on something I wrote for Jim Redfern to use in one of those demo competitions where you make your program crazy small.  Use them to add some wet depth and weirdness.

They do use a fair amount of CPU, so I suggest turning Filters-Per-Voice mode off in Atlantis if you are using it with the synthesizer.  I also suggest sticking a lowpass filter behind them.

The Pan module is something that Yann suggested and is everything you would expect from a serious panning algorithm.  It uses a sine-law, if you care.

Thanks to Rajko and Hani for reporting and testing the waveform save bugs.

You can download Atlantis 0.9g here and read the manual at https://jeremyevers.com/atlantis