The composition is the user's - a leitmotif they already have variants of,
written into the note table by hand. It replaces the eight note scale that
was there to prove a note could be played at all, and it is a better demo
for the obvious reason and one less obvious one: it is long enough to hear
whether the machine keeps time, which a run of eight notes is not.
Forty five notes, 567 frames, 9.45 seconds, peaking at 19,461 of 32,767.
The test budget goes to twelve million cycles, which is a duration rather
than a guess: at 16,667 cycles a frame the music is 9.45 million, so there
is room to add bars before anybody has to come back here.
Also records what borrowing the screen's frame actually costs, which came
out of writing music rather than out of theory. The frame is not too slow,
it is FIXED: every duration is a whole number of 16.67 ms, so a note worth
a third of a beat cannot be written, and the way round it is choosing a
tempo whose subdivisions land on whole frames - making the tune fit the
machine. That is the argument for the timer peripheral wanting an arbitrary
tick rather than a faster fixed one, and for the screen not being the clock:
a display refresh and a music routine have no reason to share a rate.
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