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  A polyphonic music generator for the ATtiny, 

specifically for the Evil Mad Scientist Hanukkah menorah

PLAYTUNE interprets a sequence of simple commands ("note on", "note off", and "wait") that represents a polyphonic musical score without volume modulation. I've posted a general interrupt-driven version for Arduinos at https://github.com/LenShustek/arduino-playtune. There is a companion program for turning MIDI files into score commands at https://github.com/LenShustek/miditones.

This much-simplified version of PLAYTUNE for the ATtiny processor uses polling instead of timer-driven interrupts, avoids multiplication or division at runtime, and mostly does 8-bit arithmetic. The frequencies are less accurate, but we can play more simultaneous tones than the number of hardware timers.

I wrote this version for the Evil Mad Scientist menorah kit http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2009/new-led-hanukkah-menorah-kit/ and posted on their forum about it. http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/musical-menorah/ I used the free Atmel "Studio" development environment, although it might also be possible to use the Arduino IDE. I'm posting this mostly as a source of ideas; you will have to make changes for other hardware environments.

-- Len