From 65e3e623f205af908d29f25f02bd8e3c57a90ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nicco1690 <78063037+nicco1690@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:03:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Include brief summary in the intro README file --- papers/doc/1-intro/README.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/papers/doc/1-intro/README.md b/papers/doc/1-intro/README.md index 6f0ca2190..c57297425 100644 --- a/papers/doc/1-intro/README.md +++ b/papers/doc/1-intro/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,27 @@ # introduction -Furnace is a tool which allows you to compose music using emulated sound chips from the 8/16-bit era. +Furnace is a tool which allows you to create music using emulated sound chips from the 8/16-bit era. +For a full list of soundchips that Furnace supports, please see [the list of systems](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/7-systems). -it has a music tracker interface. think of a piano roll, or a table that scrolls up and plays the notes. +It has a music tracker interface. think of a piano roll, or a table that scrolls up and plays the notes. + +Another core feature of Furnace is its windowing system, similar to that of GEMS or Deflemask, but with a few more features. + +## Sound generation + +Furnace generates sound from 3 different main types of sound sources. + - Instruments are the most standard and most used type of sound source in Furnace. +The instrument format is how you can specify parameters and macros for certain channels on certain soundchips, as well as binding samples and wavetables to a format that you can sequence on the note grid. +See [4-instrument](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/4-instrument) for more details. + - Wavetables are the way that you create custom waveform shapes for the HuC6280 sound chip. +Wavetables only work in the sequencer if you bind them to an instrument. See [4-instrument](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/4-instrument) and [5-wave](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/5-wave) for more details. + - Samples are how you play back raw audio streams (samples) on certain channels, on certain soundchips, and in some cases, in certain modes. +To sequence a sample, you do not need to assign it to an instrument, however, to resample samples (change the speed of a sample), you need to bind it to an Amiga/Sample instrument. +See [6-sample](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/6-sample) and [4-instrument](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/4-instrument) for more details. + +## Interface/other + +Furnace is built to have a user-friendly interface that is intentionally made so that it is quick and easy to get around when working in Furnace. +However, we understand that the interface may not be the easiest to learn, depending on how you learn, so there is documentation on it as well. + +See [2-interface](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/2-interface) and [3-pattern](https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/papers/doc/3-pattern) to view said documentation.