QB64 Phoenix Edition v3.8.0 Released!

[madscijr]

• #347 - Audio enhancements. - @a740g
  • Updates miniaudio to v0.11.17, which adds support for Apple AIFF and AIFC audio formats. So, we get those too.
    
  • PLAY has been extended to:
    • Select waveforms @n (square = 1, sawtooth = 2, triangle = 3 (default), sine = 4, noise = 5).
      
    • Adjust volume ramping Qn (0ms to 100ms).
      
  • SOUND has been extended to use the following syntax:
    • SOUND frequency#, duration#[, volume#][, panning#][, waveform&]
      

Just this alone is HUGE! I've been wanting an out-of-the-box SOUND command where one can easily select the waveform, volume, panning, etc., literally for years. This opens up so many possibilities for me -  many thanks to the QB64PE team! 

Question: are there any tutorials or examples of the new audio features? 

The additional functionality to SOUND is great, but it's destined to do only one-channel sound. One still has to work for multichannel playback with _SNDRAW and the like. ON PLAY() was never supported by QB64. This is just a reminder for the ambitious ones.

Muli-channel SOUND is a planned feature. This update just lays the foundation for that to happen. If things go as planned, we might even implement custom waveforms.

See this issue report:  Amiga BASIC like `WAVE` and `SOUND` improvements · Issue #187 · QB64-Phoenix-Edition/QB64pe (github.com)

The ON PLAY() stuff would surely be a nice-to-have feature. But that is not on our roadmap yet. Please feel free to add it to the QB64-PE GitHub issue tracker.

Even without multi-channel I'm very excited to give these features a go. 
But when you do add multi-channel, QB64PE will be a great tool for creating music applications. 

I haven't been following the releases to closely for some months, so I need to do more digging and see what else has been added. I saw mention of `Hively Tracker` and `TinySoundFont`, and am curious what that's all about. Does QB64PE have a built in tracker for music? Any MIDI support? I have some catching up to do. 

Again, any links to some good examples of any or all of these audio features would be great. 

Thanks again guys, great work!