I just realized that you can technically make the existing sounds play cyclically! You just have to play multiple sounds of the same type started with an exact delay and manipulate their volumes so that they seamlessly transition into one another.


Here's a simple proof of concept that lengthens ...

Implemented for the next release, 2.0.36.


Donion, can you please take another look at the "Stop playing" behavior? When a sample needs to be stopped, the audio engine must wait for the next zero crossing event of the sample in order to avoid an audible pop.

Here's a programmable speaker ...

My brain is just getting stuck on "you can't possibly need more than 4 speakers for a violin, 1 for a trombone, 6 for a guitar, 4 for a bass"


That's a good point, that's the number of polyphony that those instruments are physically capable of. If you pluck a string that's already "playing" a ...

I just realized that you can technically make the existing sounds play cyclically! You just have to play multiple sounds of the same type started with an exact delay and manipulate their volumes so that they seamlessly transition into one another. This way you could make it so that you only hear the ...

Doesn't it just increace the number of speakers needed a bit? Or am I thinking in sheet music too much?


You could account for each instrument’s note length and allocate notes across a number of speakers so that they never overlap on the same speaker. Assuming that most notes will have different ...

I've been testing the new speaker behaviors and I found something that wasn't immediately obvious. The volume control is evaluated every tick, not just at the start of the sample playback. This has always been the case, it just didn't matter too much since you had no other option than manually ...

The vanilla programmable speaker sounds are in a bit of a weird place currently. On the one hand, having limited tools to make songs/music boxes adds to the charm of the whole thing. If Factorio had the full note range of every instrument in the General Midi standard there wouldn't be much of a ...

Looking at new the features now.

Using the new volume control is very easy for me to add, so it will definitely be implemented in miditorio.

The "stop immediately" is a bit more tricky. Midi note off events assume that the sound will still have a "release" tail after, so they don't translate ...

Because I want to make a better music box than MIDItorio

You misspelled “with MIDItorio”

Jokes aside, these are exactly the features I wanted. Thanks so much everyone! Can’t wait to play around with them.

+1 for reverting the `signal-ghost` removal.

That is the only thing that got removed, making it the only breaking change in the update.

I would very much prefer if this was re-added before the change goes out of experimental, this would "break" almost all miditorio.com builds.

("Break" might be ...

Attached logs, crash dump and last autosave before the crash. Space platform in question is called "Easy W".

Server survived, only the client crashed.

I moved these two belts by Ctrl + X ing them, then super force placing them to where they are shown in the screenshot.

Note that there was a wire ...

The /mute-programmable speaker command only mutes speakers that are set to "global". With the addition of the "surface" setting I would expect those to be muted too.

Rail reflection on water has transparency in screenshot generated with the `/screenshot` command.

Example screenshot: screenshot-tick-888426.png

Even here you can see that the rail reflections are lighter than normal, because the forums have a gray background color showing through the image ...

I'm encountering a graphical glitch on an M1 Macbook running Factorio 1.1.76 And BRL 1.1.6:

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Straight rail sections look like they have some strange sprite overlay on the outmost zoom level. On closer zoom levels this is faded, and is completely invisible on ...