Thanks for the replies so far. Well I guess I'll just try a regular SC 55 then for a start. I wonder when (and if) most of the game music composers switched to a SC 88 or SC 88 Pro for creating their music and thus making use of the increased polyphony. This will probably be the most noticeable …

Since GM is using 128 instruments, are those instruments lined up in the first 128 spots on a first batch SC 55 just like on a GM only device with the whole extra GS stuff added in higher number "slots" that can only be accessed by games that were written for Sound Canvas/GS? I did a cross check …

So I know there are a bunch of revisions out there of the Roland SC 55. Two of the three versions don't have a GM logo on the front of the unit and are seemingly not officially GM compatible. But since GS is a superset of GM, is a Roland SC 55 without the GM logo able to play General Midi games …