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[rebcode] Rebcode discussion

Maxim
17-Feb-2007
[1539]
brian is your best bet for rebcode help, he helped a lot in designing 
and testing it with Carl.
Steeve
17-Feb-2007
[1540x2]
found it: The current beta release is 031/rebview1352031.exe.
i think i will ahve no problems to covert Z80 opcodes in rebcode, 
it's a similar approach
Maxim
17-Feb-2007
[1542]
just that if you have some bugs or wandering about specifics, he 
has deep knowledge of it, he might even be able to give you hints 
on how to go around a few missing things.
Steeve
18-Feb-2007
[1543]
is there a way to test if a var is set to none ?
Anton
18-Feb-2007
[1544]
NONE? word
Steeve
18-Feb-2007
[1545]
yep
Anton
18-Feb-2007
[1546]
ah sorry - rebcode - not sure :--x
Steeve
18-Feb-2007
[1547x6]
^^^
is the T flag positionned after AND opcode execution ?
i should test that
seems not
so, i have to do something like that, to set the T flag, i mean :
 
AND tmp 255
eq.i  tmp 255
i have to do many operations like that to emulate the Z80 8-bit ship, 
Z80 modify his T-flag after any logical operation. i think Rebcode 
should do that  too :-)
Oldes
18-Feb-2007
[1553]
Please write it to Rambo, better now, before R3
Steeve
18-Feb-2007
[1554x5]
done
another prob is that all opcode operate on 32 bit integers only, 
in my case it would be cool if they can act as well on chars (8 bit)
i can do without, but my code is more verbose
...and slower
espacially with bit rotation opcode, which are useless in my case 
^^^
Steeve
19-Feb-2007
[1559x2]
i need a speed reverse byte function with rebcode , for example 1100 
0000 => 000 0011
any idea ?
* 1100 0000 =>  0000 0011
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1561]
I get strange result from the sin opcode, is there something special 
to know or is it a bug ?
Maxim
20-Feb-2007
[1562]
rad or degres?
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1563x2]
degree
I try with rad too but I should make a mistake
Maxim
20-Feb-2007
[1565]
I'm not an expert only that I know by having many 3d cgi scripts 
that many apis have a mix and match of rad and degres... but it seems 
you looked at that too...
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1566x3]
To test, I use this code :
test-sin: rebcode [value [decimal!]][sin value return value]
>> test-sin 90.
== 0.893996663600558
>> test-sin 100.
== -0.506365641109759
>> test-sin 0.0
== 0.0
>> test-sin 1.
== 0.841470984807897
>> test-sin .1
== 9.98334166468282E-2
>>
Maxim
20-Feb-2007
[1569x2]
hum... its possible that some values just don't map directly to precise 
values (floating point errors)
but I agree that sin 90 should give you something closer to 1
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1571x2]
et sin 1 devrait donner quelque chose de proche de 0
sorry in english, and sin 1 should give something near to 0
Maxim
20-Feb-2007
[1573x2]
just tested  and well... the values supplied really are in radians 
 :-)
>> sine/radians 90
== 0.893996663600556
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1575]
and a radian is pi / 2, right ?
Maxim
20-Feb-2007
[1576]
2 * pi
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1577x2]
Yes, right. It's OK now my script is running well. Thanks you.
Thanks to rebcode I can generate 6 minutes of music in 20 seconds 
instead of 5 minutes with a standard script. Great.
Rebolek
20-Feb-2007
[1579x2]
if you want fast sine, use tables, it's 10x times faster (that's 
without interpolation, but even with interpolation it will be still 
faster).
or if you need continuos sine wave, use self oscilating filter
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1581]
I'm a newbe in music generation so ... I don't know what is self 
oscilating filter.
Rebolek
20-Feb-2007
[1582x3]
you can generate sine wave aproximation faster than using sin func
some example code (in C, but easy to rewrite):

float a = 2.f*(float)sin(Pi*frequency/samplerate);

float s[2];

s[0] = 0.5f;
s[1] = 0.f;

loop:
s[0] = s[0] - a*s[1];
s[1] = s[1] + a*s[0];
output_sine = s[0];
output_cosine = s[1]
this is much faster than calling SIN
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1585]
Very simple indeed. I will test.
Rebolek
20-Feb-2007
[1586]
have you seen my Sintezar PM-101 in rebol.org library? maybe it will 
be interesting for you. I've got rebcode version on my disk, but 
because rebcode is not part of official rebol, it's not released. 
if you're interested, i can send you some examples. now i'm rewriting 
that synth as VST instrument in C(++), it's much faster then :)
Coccinelle
20-Feb-2007
[1587x2]
No, I will look at now.
Thanks Rebolek, I reduce the time to produce 6 minutes 44 of music 
from 20 to 15 second.