Random
Make music with a pocket calculator
Are you studying mathematics or following scientific lessons ? If yes, there is great chance that you own a graphing pocket calculator and maybe one from the most popular brand around, Texas Instruments. Did you know you can make music with it ?
Yes, that’s true. If you’re one of the happy owners of a Texas Instrument “TI 82/83/83+/84+” there is a free app to use these graphing calculators as musical instruments.
“HoustonTracker 2 runs on the TI-82/83/83+/84+ Texas Instruments graphing pocket calculators – the kind you probably had to buy for your high school math class. And it doesn’t just make the calculator into a sequencer. All the sounds come straight out of the calculator itself, thanks to some gorgeous-sounding 1-bit noises.”
Feature set :
3 tone channels
1 non-interrupting drum channel
up to 128 note patterns
up to 64 drum/fx patterns
sequence length up to 255 pattern rows
16-bit frequency precision
8-bit speed precision, can be configured per step
various effects, including:
L/C/R stereo hard-panning for tone and drum channels
8bit duty cycle control
duty cycle sweep
2 user definable samples
up to 8 savestates
edit during playback
Original post by Peter Kirn :
Texas Instruments graphing calculators :
YOUTUBE