Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2014-01-08, 20:17

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by DracoNihil

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If you use Winamp you can specify it to loop all MIDI's as if they had a loop marker even if they don't. And yes Chrom is a soundfont but it exhibits this problem. The creative soundfonts, GeneralUserGS and ArahcnoSoft do not produce this bug. This only seems to happen with very select few MIDI …

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Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2014-01-08, 12:57

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by DracoNihil

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As requested here they are... it's also worth noting either some of the patches in Fatman don't exist or playing a note on 0 volume and trying to increase it results in no sound. You can reproduce this weird "every channel turns into drums" by loading Chromium Rev A into BASSMIDIDrv. Is this a bug …

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Re: DUKE3D crackling sound effects

Posted on 2014-01-08, 12:18

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by DracoNihil

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I remember this problem happening to me on my dad's old Toshiba but that was running a soundblaster 16... I never did figure out why it happened. Most of Duke3D's sounds are in 8000 hz sampling rates, only a few are ever ~22050 hz. You're not missing much by having the sound set to 22 Khz or even …

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Re: What is the real difference between VIBRA16 and SB16?

Posted on 2014-01-07, 16:23

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by DracoNihil

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Excerpt from IT's manual: Sound Blaster 16 driver (ITSB16.DRV, ITSB16B.DRV, ITSB16C.DRV) The Sound Blaster 16 has a mixing range of 12000->45454 in either mono or stereo modes. If you specify this driver ( IT /s5 or IT /sITSB16.DRV ) AND an IRQ or DMA, IT will try to *FORCE* the SB16 to use the IRQ/ …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-01-07, 16:08

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by DracoNihil

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Marathon:Resurrection for Unreal Tournament. It's odd playing it because even though it IS marathon 1's campaign, alot of stuff had to be changed since Unreal had not alot of the odd features the marathon engine used. Also it uses Marathon Infinity's weapon design rather than the odd design Marathon …

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Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2014-01-06, 22:19

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by DracoNihil

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Back from visiting my grandmother down in Texas. What I meant by the drum thing, I don't know if it's winamp's fault because the MIDI's I listen to aren't even changing Bank MSB or LSB, and the problem only happens on very few soundfonts\synths. When it happens that channel just turns into what …

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Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2014-01-03, 18:52

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I'm noticing (though this could be Winamp's fault) that when some MID files loop, the patches become totally screwed and turned into drum tracks (mostly fixed by setting the bank MSB to something then back to 0, I actually had this happen to a few soundfont's too funnily enough) in addition, the …

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Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2014-01-03, 12:39

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It's working fine now! I wonder what was causing the division by zero though?

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Re: Windows OPL3 Synthesizer

Posted on 2014-01-03, 11:19

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I'm freaked out by how this plays GAME12.HMP in Descent... It sounds just like the setup program almost. EDIT: Crashes trying to play Duke2thm.mid Faulting application name: winamp.exe, version: 5.5.7.2830, time stamp: 0x4b4e4d1e Faulting module name: opl3emu.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: …

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Re: What is the real difference between VIBRA16 and SB16?

Posted on 2014-01-03, 10:50

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by DracoNihil

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By hanging notes does this also affect MIDI-IN? since that's all I'm going to attempt to use in impulsetracker, not MIDI-OUT. If that's the case is there any way I could get a much more reliable MIDI-IN, through the UART on a PC or something? Or do I really need to get a MPU-401?

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Re: Klingon Honor Guard UMX Project (De-CD-ification)

Posted on 2014-01-02, 23:05

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I was just stating the problems I've had with Galaxy when it came to UMX files with large WAV's as samples in them. Another game that did (not entirely) same idea was Tactical Ops: War on Terror. The UMX files had segments of music that played sequentially, though what confuses me is, they go …

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Re: Klingon Honor Guard UMX Project (De-CD-ification)

Posted on 2014-01-02, 19:31

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by DracoNihil

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Galaxy (I would assume that's what KHG uses since Deus Ex and Rune used it too) has this hilariously bad issue of ignoring tempo\speed commands, especially depending on how fast you're trying to set it. This easily ruins songs that rely on alternating the speed and\or tempo between two values during …

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Re: What is the real difference between VIBRA16 and SB16?

Posted on 2014-01-02, 15:24

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by DracoNihil

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The model number on my VIBRA16 is CT2260, and the YMF262 chip says: Yamaha OPL YMF262-M 9502 FABC so I suppose this is a legit OPL3. The DAC for the OPL3 chip is: YAC512-M 504CC I'm only going to be booting MS-DOS 6 on the machine I'll be putting this in, so does PnP even still matter to me? PnP was …

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Re: What is the real difference between VIBRA16 and SB16?

Posted on 2014-01-01, 22:02

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by DracoNihil

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Not at all. I just think it'd be more convenient to use a MIDI keyboard controller within the tracker but I've been using the usual QWERTY keyboard for it for years so if I can't get MIDI-IN to work at all, oh well. What matters is if I can actually use the SB16 driver it has with it.

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Re: What is the real difference between VIBRA16 and SB16?

Posted on 2014-01-01, 18:22

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by DracoNihil

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Well that's a relief... Looks like I'll use this thing after all, much thanks for clarifying. I hope I can get some sort of MIDI out of it's gameport, since I read online you can make a MIDI interface work though gameports but I'm not sure getting such things going smoothly over DOS.

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What is the real difference between VIBRA16 and SB16?

Posted on 2014-01-01, 18:15

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by DracoNihil

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Reading from wikipedia it says VIBRA 16 is a cost reduced model, with no ASP\CSP chip slot, no Bass\Treble control, no WaveBlaster header, and on some models no actual YMF262 chip. I have a Vibra 16 that has a YMF262 chip on it, is there really no other difference sound wise to a non Vibra 16 and …

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Re: What games to play?

Posted on 2014-01-01, 14:44

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by DracoNihil

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Stellar 7, preferably the CD copy so you can enjoy the voice acting done to Gir Draxon that will make you think he's the MCP from Tron. Speaking of Raptor, there's also DemonStar which was done by the same people, hell the ship you fly in that is called "RaptorX"... The music in that game is amazing …

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Re: FREE fallout 1,2, & tactics

Posted on 2014-01-01, 12:44

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by DracoNihil

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Oh goodie... Still screw Bethesda... I'm totally not looking forward to their new fallout game.

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Re: FREE fallout 1,2, & tactics

Posted on 2014-01-01, 09:42

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by DracoNihil

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I hope somewhere down the line GOG manages to secure rights to distribute the games on their platform DRM free, but knowing Bethesda and their parent ZeniMax I doubt that will happen any day soon if at all. "Capitalism Ho!!!"

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Re: FREE fallout 1,2, & tactics

Posted on 2014-01-01, 09:01

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by DracoNihil

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Great, I didn't even get a chance to download ANY OF THEM... (I've been stuck on a crappy DSL line that goes out of sync the moment I even try to download anything full speed) I wish Bethesda sank along with that retarded ZeniMax media conglomerate....

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