Q&A

What is Bytebeat?

Bytebeat music (or one-liner music) was invented in September 2011. They're generally a piece of rhythmic and somewhat melodic music with no score, no instruments, and no real oscillators. It's simply a single-line formula (or expression) that defines a waveform as a function of time, processed (usually) 8000 times per second, resulting in an audible waveform with a 256-step resolution from silence (0) to full amplitude (256).

If you put that formula into a program with a loop that increments time variable (t), you can generate the headerless unsigned 8 bit mono 8kHz audio stream on output, like in composers such as SthephanShi's or Greggman's. Since these directly output a waveform, they have great performance in compiled languages and can often be ran on even the weakest embedded devices.

Can I participate?

Absolutely! Just join the Discord server, and fill out the form in the #get-in-competition channel.

So... where do I submit my entry?

The competition takes place in a Discord server. This website is used only for information regarding it.

How are songs judged?

Songs are judged off of creativity, complexity, quality of sound, and performance (used by rendering the code, figuring out how many seconds could be rendered per real seconds, then mapping it so best gets 3 and worst 0).
The Final Score can go from 0 to 33 (not withstanding the length penalty).