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Sound: SOINT

[Commodore 64 version]

Name: SOINT [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Sound Summary: Process the contents of the sound buffer and send it to the sound chip, to make sound effects as part of the interrupt routine
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code References: This subroutine is called as follows: * COMIRQ1 calls SOINT * SOUL3b calls via SOUL8

Other entry points: SOUL8 Process the sound buffer from voice Y to 0
.SOINT LDY #2 ; We are going to work our way through the three voices ; and process each one in turn, so set a voice counter ; in Y to go from 2 to 0, for voices 3 to 1 .SOUL8 LDA SOFLG,Y ; Set A to the sound flag in SOFLG for voice Y BEQ SOUL3b ; If the sound flag is zero then no sound effect is ; being made on voice Y, so jump to SOUL3b to move on to ; the next voice, or return from the interrupt if this ; is the last voice BMI SOUL4 ; If bit 7 of the sound flag is set then we are just ; starting to make a new sound effect, so jump to SOUL4 ; to reset the SID registers for voice Y LDX SEVENS,Y ; Use the lookup table at SEVENS to set X = 7 * Y, so it ; can be used as an index into the SID registers for ; voice Y (as each of the three voices has seven ; associated register bytes, starting at to SID, SID+$7 ; and SID+$E for voices 1, 2 and 3 respectively) LDA SOFRCH,Y ; If the SOFRCH value for voice Y is zero, then there is BEQ SOUL5 ; no frequency change to apply, so jump to SOUL5 to skip ; past the frequency addition in SOUX2 BNE SOUX2 ; Otherwise jump to SOUX2 to apply the frequency change ; in A (this BNE is effectively a JMP as we just passed ; through a BEQ above) ;EQUB $2C ; This instruction is commented out in the original ; source .SOUL4 ; If we get here then this is a new sound on voice Y, so ; we need to initialise the voice LDA SEVENS,Y ; Use the lookup table at SEVENS to set A = 7 * Y STA SOUX3+1 ; Modify the STA instruction at SOUX3 to point to the ; correct block of seven SID registers for voice Y, so ; we zero the SID registers for voice Y in the following LDA #0 ; Set A = 0 to use for zeroing the SID registers LDX #6 ; There are seven bytes of SID registers for each voice, ; so set a counter in X so we can zero them all .SOUX3 STA SID,X ; Zero SID register X for voice Y ; ; This instruction was modified by the above to point to ; the register block for voice Y, so it zeroes register ; byte X for voice Y, rather than voice 1 DEX ; Decrement the byte counter BPL SOUX3 ; Loop back until we have zeroed all seven bytes of SID ; registers for voice Y LDX SEVENS,Y ; Use the lookup table at SEVENS to set X = 7 * Y, so it ; can be used as an index into the SID registers for ; voice Y LDA SOCR,Y ; Set SID register $4 (the voice control register) for STA SID+$4,X ; voice Y to the value from SOPR for voice Y, to control ; the sound as follows: ; ; * Bit 0: 0 = voice off, release cycle ; 1 = voice on, attack-decay-sustain cycle ; ; * Bit 1 set = synchronization enabled ; ; * Bit 2 set = ring modulation enabled ; ; * Bit 3 set = disable voice, reset noise generator ; ; * Bit 4 set = triangle waveform enabled ; ; * Bit 5 set = saw waveform enabled ; ; * Bit 6 set = square waveform enabled ; ; * Bit 7 set = noise waveform enabled ; ; These values come from the SFXCR table LDA SOATK,Y ; Set SID register $5 (the attack and decay length) for STA SID+$5,X ; voice Y to the value from SOATK for voice Y, to ; control the sound as follows: ; ; * Bits 0-3 = decay length ; ; * Bits 4-7 = attack length ; ; These values come from the SFXATK table LDA SOSUS,Y ; Set SID register $6 (the release length and sustain STA SID+$6,X ; volume) for voice Y to the value from SOSUS for voice ; Y, to control the sound as follows: ; ; * Bits 0-3 = release length ; ; * Bits 4-7 = sustain volume ; ; These values come from the SFXSUS table, but can be ; overridden manually using the NOISE2 routine LDA #0 ; Set A = 0 so the following frequency calculation has ; no effect, as we are just adding 0 to the frequency .SOUX2 ; We jump here if this is an existing sound whose SOFRCH ; value is non-zero, in which case the non-zero value is ; in A ; ; SOFRCH contains a frequency change to be applied in ; each frame, so we now add that to the frequency in ; SOFRQ ; ; If this is a new sound then we get here with A = 0, so ; the frequency doesn't change ; ; Is this is an existing sound with a frequency change ; of 0, then we already jumped past this calculation and ; went straight to SOUL5 from above CLC ; Add A to the SOFRQ value for voice Y, so the frequency CLD ; change gets applied ADC SOFRQ,Y STA SOFRQ,Y PHA ; Store the frequency from SOFRQ on the stack, so we can ; extract the different parts to send to the SID chip LSR A ; Set SID register $1 (high byte of the frequency) for LSR A ; voice Y to bits 2-7 of A STA SID+$1,X PLA ; Set SID register $0 (low byte of the frequency) for ASL A ; voice Y so that bits 0-1 of A are in bits 6-7 ASL A ; ASL A ; So if "f" represents the value from SOFRQ, this sets ASL A ; the 16-bit frequency as follows (with the high byte on ASL A ; the left): ASL A ; STA SID,X ; 00ffffff ff000000 ; ; Or, to put it another way, the frequency is set to ; SOFRQ << 6, or SOFR * 64 LDA PULSEW ; Set SID register $3 (pulse width) for voice Y to the STA SID+$3,X ; value of PULSEW, which oscillates between 2 and 6 ; for each frame .SOUL5 LDA SOFLG,Y ; If bit 7 of the sound flag is set then this is a new BMI SOUL6 ; sound effect, and we just started making it, so jump ; to SOUL6 to clear this bit in the sound flag as this ; is no longer a new sound TYA ; Set X = Y, so both X and Y contain the voice number TAX ; in the range 0 to 2, which we'll call voice Y DEC SOPR,X ; Decrement the priority in SOPR for voice Y, keeping BNE P%+5 ; it above zero, so sounds diminish in priority as they INC SOPR,X ; play out DEC SOCNT,X ; Decrement the counter in SOCNT for voice Y BEQ SOKILL ; If the counter has reached zero then it has just run ; out and this sound effect has finished, so jump to ; SOKILL to terminate it ; The SFXVCH table contains values whose lower bits are ; all set (e.g. %00000011, %00001111, %000111111, ; %11111111 and so on) ; ; If we AND a number this with a value, this the result ; will only be zero when the number is a multiple of the ; SFXVCH value LDA SOCNT,X ; If the sound effect counter is not a multiple of the AND SOVCH,Y ; SOVCH value for voice Y, jump to SOUL3 to move on to BNE SOUL3 ; the next voice ; If we get here then the sound effect counter is a ; multiple of the SOVCH value for voice Y LDA SOSUS,Y ; Subtract 16 from the release length and sustain SEC ; volume in SOSUS for voice Y SBC #16 ; STA SOSUS,Y ; This actually subtracts 1 from the high nibble of the ; release length and sustain volume, and the high nibble ; of the SOSUS value contains the sustain volume, so ; this subtracts 1 from the sustain volume LDX SEVENS,Y ; Use the lookup table at SEVENS to set X = 7 * Y, so it ; can be used as an index into the SID registers for ; voice Y STA SID+$6,X ; Update SID register $6 (release length and sustain ; volume) with the new value to reduce the volume of ; the sound by 1 JMP SOUL3 ; Jump to SOUL3 to move on to the next voice .SOKILL ; If we get here then the sound effect in voice Y has ; reached the end of its counter, so we need to ; terminate it LDX SEVENS,Y ; Use the lookup table at SEVENS to set X = 7 * Y, so it ; can be used as an index into the SID registers for ; voice Y LDA SOCR,Y ; Set SID register $4 (the voice control register) for AND #%11111110 ; voice Y to the value from SOPR for voice Y, but with STA SID+$4,X ; bit 0 clear ; ; Bit 0 controls the sound as follows: ; ; * Bit 0: 0 = voice off, release cycle ; 1 = voice on, attack-decay-sustain cycle ; ; So this turns the voice off, while leaving everything ; else as it was LDA #0 ; Zero the sound flag in SOFLG for voice Y to indicate STA SOFLG,Y ; that no sound effect is playing on this voice any more STA SOPR,Y ; Set the priority in SOPR for voice Y to zero, so any ; new sound effects will always override the priority ; of voice Y BEQ SOUL3 ; Jump to SOUL3 to move on to the next voice (this BEQ ; is effectively a JMP as A is always zero) .SOUL6 ; If we get here then bit 7 of the sound flag is set for ; this sound (to indicate that it's a new sound effect), ; and A contains the whole sound flag AND #%01111111 ; Clear bit 7 of A to indicate that this is no longer a ; new sound effect STA SOFLG,Y ; Update the sound flag for voice Y with the newly ; cleared bit 7 .SOUL3 DEY ; Decrement the voice number in Y to move on to the next ; voice BMI P%+5 ; If we just decremented the voice number to a negative ; value, then we have already processed all three ; voices, so skip the following instruction to return ; from the interrupt handler JMP SOUL8 ; Otherwise Y is still positive, so jump back to SOUL8 ; to make any sound effects on voice Y LDA PULSEW ; Flip bit 2 of PULSEW, so it oscillates between 2 and 6 EOR #%00000100 STA PULSEW ;LDA #1 ; These instructions are commented out in the original ;STA intcnt ; source ; Fall through into coffee to return from the interrupt ; handler