furnace/doc/7-systems/watarasv.md

# Watara Supervision

a failed competitor of Game Boy, straight from Taiwan. released in 1992, it had a tilting screen, $50 price tag, very fast 4 MHz 6502-like CPU, framebuffer graphics and sound capabilities similia to Game Boy.

these are 2 pulse wave channels (same as on GB), barely working PCM channel and noise channel, also not unlike Game Boy. no hardware envelopes or zombie mode, though
## effects

- `12xx`: **set duty cycle/noise mode.**
  - range is `0` to `3 ` for pulses and `0` to `1` for noise.
## info

this chip uses the [Watara Supervision](../4-instrument/vatarasv.md) and [Generic Sample](../4-instrument/sample.md) instrument editors.

### sample info

sample channel is 4-bit DMA channel with 4 frequencies assigned to sample octaves (C2, C3, C4, C5; C, C#, D, D# in furnace respectively). max sample size is 4 kilobytes (8192 samples).

## chip config

the following options are available in the Chip Manager window:

- **Swap noise duty cycles**: enabled by default. when enabled, short noise is on odd-indexed duty cycles, like on Game Boy, rather than even.
- **Stereo pulse waves**: disabled by default. when enabled, it forces pulse channel 1 to the right output channel and second pulse to the left output channel.
create watara doc lol 2024-09-23 17:42:37 +00:00			`# Watara Supervision`

			`a failed competitor of Game Boy, straight from Taiwan. released in 1992, it had a tilting screen, $50 price tag, very fast 4 MHz 6502-like CPU, framebuffer graphics and sound capabilities similia to Game Boy.`

			`these are 2 pulse wave channels (same as on GB), barely working PCM channel and noise channel, also not unlike Game Boy. no hardware envelopes or zombie mode, though`
			`## effects`

			- `12xx`: set duty cycle/noise mode.
			- range is `0` to `3 ` for pulses and `0` to `1` for noise.
			`## info`

			`this chip uses the [Watara Supervision](../4-instrument/vatarasv.md) and [Generic Sample](../4-instrument/sample.md) instrument editors.`

watara pcm info 2024-09-23 18:02:22 +00:00			`### sample info`

			`sample channel is 4-bit DMA channel with 4 frequencies assigned to sample octaves (C2, C3, C4, C5; C, C#, D, D# in furnace respectively). max sample size is 4 kilobytes (8192 samples).`

create watara doc lol 2024-09-23 17:42:37 +00:00			`## chip config`

			`the following options are available in the Chip Manager window:`

			`- Swap noise duty cycles: enabled by default. when enabled, short noise is on odd-indexed duty cycles, like on Game Boy, rather than even.`
			`- Stereo pulse waves: disabled by default. when enabled, it forces pulse channel 1 to the right output channel and second pulse to the left output channel.`