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Re: Sound Blaster 16 & AWE: From best to worst

Posted on Yesterday, 19:55

anakin94 wrote on Yesterday, 14:14: Then i can also check if the card has the clipping issue. Is there a special audiofile to check it? The chaingun in Wolfenstein 3D is also very good to check the clipping issue.

Re: Which "old-type" Roland MT-32 to get for DOS games?

Posted on 2021-02-12, 19:46

by Salient

in MT-32 General

imi wrote on 2021-02-12, 12:19: is there any listening example of the differences between the old old one and the old rev.1? Here you can hear the difference with the credits track of Dune II.

Re: Kawai GMEGA - Broken display?

Posted on 2021-02-08, 18:44

by Salient

in Marvin \ Sound

The Kawai Gmega uses a generic Hitachi HD4478 based 16x2 display afaik. Any of those from AliExpress will probably do. Maybe you'd have to fiddle a little to align it (don't know if the screw holes match) but it should be possible. Did the same twice with both my Roland RA-50's 😀

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-02-04, 19:37

by Salient

in Marvin \ System Specs

Desk as of december 2020 😀

Re: MT-32, Putzlowitschs MIDI Mapper and Roland Um-One vs MS GS Wavetable Synth

Posted on 2021-02-03, 06:01

by Salient

in MT-32 General

This is what I use: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/midimapper It works great.

Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card

Posted on 2021-01-17, 10:52

by Salient

in Marvin \ Sound

Don't. Have. Enough. Wavetable. Cards. Must. Buy.

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-15, 17:38

by Salient

in Milliways

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-01-15, 16:10: That controller reminds me of the original large Xbox controller That is meant to be since it is a faithful recreation of exactly that one. This one has a USB connection though and works on an Xbox One and PC.

Re: Making a midi device tower

Posted on 2021-01-15, 15:58

by Salient

in Marvin \ Sound

Here is my current midi 'towerish' setup. In the white box on the top left are all my wavetable daughterboards + device to connect them as an external sound module.

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-15, 15:52

by Salient

in Milliways

I just couldn't resist anymore and eventually bought myself this out of pure nostalgia:

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-15, 15:48

by Salient

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Modding/Refurbishing OG Xboxes counts too, right ?

Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2021-01-08, 20:28

by Salient

in Milliways

antrad wrote on 2021-01-08, 18:02: I am using Windows 7 and listening music in Winamp 5.66 from 2013. Winamp FTW!

Re: New to Vogons, retro pc showcase

Posted on 2021-01-08, 09:08

by Salient

in Marvin \ System Specs

What is that battery compartement for? Did you replace that whole metal part / that unit with the batteries in it and where did you find that? The metal is original, I just replaced the pastic holder within. If you look at the picture from the inside of the computer, you can still see the damage to …

Re: New to Vogons, retro pc showcase

Posted on 2021-01-07, 20:18

by Salient

in Marvin \ System Specs

HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 20:07: Are you using the original PSU in that Tulip system? Yes, all is original except for the battery compartment which I had to replace due to heavy leakage.

Re: New to Vogons, retro pc showcase

Posted on 2021-01-07, 20:06

by Salient

in Marvin \ System Specs

HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 19:48: Tulip, a true Dutch classic 😀 That looks really nice and clean! And that's a true period correct system 😜 Yes, I am happy with this system.. It's very stable and all components are in nice shape and belong together.. Inside is an SB16 (CT-1750) with a Roland …

Re: New to Vogons, retro pc showcase

Posted on 2021-01-07, 19:44

by Salient

in Marvin \ System Specs

I only have two retro PC's, and only one of them is kind of show worthy I guess 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-29, 20:12

by Salient

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Purchased this SC-55 from its renowned owner recently. There's slightly more to the story, but, suffice it to say, this is -the- Sound Canvas that was used for the scoring of Noctropolis and other titles. Thing looks brand new. I just purchased a GS-only logo SC-55 myself, but it's not in such a …

Re: MT-32 wavetable daughterboard exist

Posted on 2020-12-28, 17:13

by Salient

in Marvin \ Sound

... a DIY waveblaster daughterboard which seeems to be fully compatible with MT-32 ... See: http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/ It says "And just today two more, very special new boards arrived from the same source: LAPC on a MIDI daughterboard! It must have been especially difficult sourcing those …

Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2020-12-24, 22:23

by Salient

in Marvin \ Sound

Is the SC-155 firmware the same as the SC-55? I have a normal SC-55 (GM/GS logo version) which has ROM version 2.00, but I also have a Roland SC-155 (which also has the GM and GS logo, i think all of them do) which has ROM version 1.00. I think I would have to test with the dn3d midi file between …