NEW LFO FOR FASTFINGERS

So here is the new LFO update to Fastfingers2. Tapping repeatedly the = will turn on LFO , select 16 different preset speeds and keep it on until you hit the ] to bring the speed down and turn it off. These buttons are logically NEXT to each other on the C64. Right hand button up and left hand button down. Glide has been moved to the RETurn key.Tremelo and Swirl are redundant and have been replaced with this LFO.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AS SOON AS A MIDI KEY IS HIT (UNLESS YOU DISABLE DISPLAY FOR SMOOTHER RESPONSE) There is no more access to LOAD and SAVE and KEYBUTTONS on C64, but all front page effects and chords will work. And with MIDI ENABLED you now have 16 fast presets instead of only 10.(Fast presets will be at the top of the SOUNDS memory where most PROGRAM CHANGE will not reach.

#C64 #commodore #synthesizer FINAL ...I mean FINAL main front page with DADSR

NEW DYNAMIC ADSR STEP EDITOR FOR FASTFINGERS

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Final touches

First, I found myself looking up at the screen too much for PLAY FAST FORWARD AND REWIND. I renamed the functions PLAY, NEXT, LAST, because + is more like NEXT and - more like LAST and yes the Commodore buttons are backwards , but that is the way they are. Then We have the new SPARKLE switch, a new sound effect that you have to hear.

Below is an Excel rendering of the new LFO for Fastfingers. Fastfingers 1 never had a real LFO . It was just a count up and count down to produce Swirl and Tremelo filtering. This will be smoother sounding. The original was more like a Triangle wave. I plotted this on graph paper first. It is not a true Sine wave.

NEW FRONT PAGE FOR FASTFINGERS

The changes to the new FRONT PAGE or PERFORMANCE PAGE of Fastfingers may look subtle, but they are quite profound. First off, Vibrato, Tremelo, Glide, Swirl and SQFL (sequencer data to control filter rather than pitch) have all been added to the front page and can be toggled on and off. Also note that there is no longer a button for real time recording.Recording in real time with this is unnecessary and was touchy in slowed down step mode. Data can be changed with the new step sequencer editors for Pitch, Velocity, and Transpose. The TRANSPORT formerly used for Record, Fastforward ,Rewind will now allow the user during a performance to move to the next 16 event Note, Velocity or Transpose sequence. Stop will return to the beginning of THAT sequence. The WHERE display now will simultaneously display the positions of the Pitch, Velocity, and Transpose and the SPEED display has been moved to between FASTER and SLOWER. Also there will now be 10 "FAST PRESETS" without MIDI (instead of 8) and 16 when operating BLIND with a MIDI keyboard. (A different kind of performance.) Sorry people. This program will no longer work properly with Vice...only on a real Commodore 64 or C128.

NEW TRANSPOSER EDITOR FOR FASTFINGERS

This will make real time recording unnecessary and thus real time recording will be removed to allow for a few new functions. Fastfingers will become a fully functional step sequencer with arpeggios which will automatically transpose guided by this transpose memory.