Harmonium Wii

Harmonium
File:Harmoniumwii.jpg
General
Author	MetaFight
Type	Music
Version	1 beta3
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2009/07/07
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Harmonium Wii is a musical doodling tool. The user can manipulate notes on a 16x16 grid to create melodies within a pentatonic scale. On top of this already addictive concept, you can liven things up by enabling Conway's Game of Life!

It's not the easiest thing to explain, so just try it!

It is important to mention, as well, that the concept behind Harmonium isn't my own. André Michelle has a very similar application on his website which served as Harmonium's inspiration.

News

7 July 2009

It finally happened... I got a job. That means I won't be able to work on homebrew nearly as much as before. I was hoping to skip a beta3 release and go straight to v1 but considering the little amount of free time I have that would take a while. I thought it would be better to release what I have now and simply tell people it's still not done yet ;)... So here it is! Harmonium v1 beta3!

A lot has changed since the original release!
Noticeably: Grid shifting, grid history, grid saving/loading, more evolution modes, UI changes, and probably more...
Less Noticeably: The playback system now uses only one ASND voice per column (this removes all note drops, yay!), sound playback is now even (yay!).

What I didn't get around to doing (yet):

• Fix the tuning to 440Hz
• Fix software mixing so loundess is constant
• Tweak the UI.
• And probably a few more things I'm too lazy to go find in my notes.

So, I guess that's it for now. I hope you enjoy this release. Version 1 final is probably a long way away.

Controls

Basic Wiimote 1 - Wiimote 4 Action Wiimote A Button Insert / Remove notes Wiimote Plus Button Enable Game of Life mode Wiimote Minus Button Disable Game of Life mode Wiimote 1 Button Increase tempo Wiimote 2 Button Decrease tempo Wiimote DPad Shift grid Wiimote Home Button Home Menu (to exit game)

Advanced Wiimote 1 - Wiimote 4 Action Wiimote B Button + Wiimote A Button Clear grid Wiimote B Button + Wiimote Plus Button Navigate forward through history Wiimote B Button + Wiimote Minus Button Navigate backwards through history Wiimote B Button + Wiimote 1 Button Cycle up through Game of Life modes Wiimote B Button + Wiimote 2 Button Cycle down through Game of Life modes

Changelog

7 July 2009, v1 beta3

• Save/Load
• New software mixing
• Probably more... (will add later)

11 June 2009, v1 beta2

• Implemented a few features I'd like feedback on before implementing the rest and releasing v1.
• New features:
  • Adjustable tempo
  • Adjustable volume
  • 2 new GoL modes
  • Grid shifting
  • 64 grid history
  • New timing mechanism means even playback
  • Typematic to make grid shifting and history browsing faster and easier.

17 May 2009, v1 beta

• Initial Release

Thanks

• Thanks to André Michelle for the inspiration.
• Thanks to the folks in #GRRLIB for GRRLIB.
• Thanks to everyone responsible for DevkitPro and Libogc.
• Thanks to the folks at #wiidev.
• Thanks to the madness at #wiidevot.
• Thanks to Team Twiizers.
• Thanks to Extrems for his nice icon.
• Thanks to drmr for his Wii Homebrew Cursors.

External links

• Official Website - http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
• Wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Harmonium