Project

This page says what a project is and what it holds. Read it before changing what a saved project contains. Projects documents the file.

A project is a whole composition in SampleToNES: a song written for the four NES channels, with the voices it is built from. A reconstruction is a single converted sound. A project has many of them, the instruments you made beside them, and the arrangement that plays them all. An entire piece lives in one file.

• The voices: the reconstructions you have imported and the instruments you made. A row can play any of them.
• The song: the patterns written for each channel and the order they play in.
• The settings and info: the tempo, speed and NES frequency the song plays at, and the title, author and comment that describe it.

The sequencer guide covers writing a project and exporting it.

A project stores the reconstructions it uses inside its own file. It also stores each instrument there. Moving or sharing the file therefore moves the whole composition: the arrangement and every sound it needs. The stored reconstructions are detached from their source-audio paths, because those paths mean nothing on another machine. The project opens the same wherever it goes.

A project is saved as a .stp file: a document describing the song and its settings, with the embedded reconstructions beside it. Projects documents that structure.