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Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card

Posted on 2023-09-13, 10:23

Hi Guys, in your opinion, what's the better choice wavetable sound quality-wise: E-Wave or Dreamblaster S2? Really depends on your tastes, but I'd say S2 is "safer" it is very well balanced, and sounds good with basically all GM tracks. E-Wave is bass heavy, so this can be good or bad depending on …

Games with true SC-88 support.

Posted on 2023-09-01, 03:03

Was digging through some old boxes at my parents house and found my original copy of Brave Soul. For those not familiar with it, it's an Adults Only ARPG developed by Crowd and was officially translated to English and sold in the USA by Peach Princess (JastUSA) back in 2003. It plays kind of like a …

Re: Roland MT-32 and SC-55Mkii Wiring

Posted on 2023-08-30, 10:41

A switch box is fine for sound modules, since only one would be playing at a time. Mixers are only needed for, well, mixing. I find mixers to be much more convenient as every game outputs sfx audio at a different level. Way simpler to just turn a mixer knob to get the sfx and midi music level to …

Re: MIDI to VGM translator

Posted on 2023-08-04, 02:43

Release alpha5 adds support for OPL3 and dual OPL3... though I don't know if there is any software yet which can play dual OPL3 VGM on real hardware. SBVGM struggles to play single OPL3 on my 286, so I might have to add OPL support to my own VGM player (which has been only for my custom OPN card so …

Re: Why no Dual-OPL3 soundcards?

Posted on 2023-07-17, 05:10

I think the OPL4 was already the perfect upgrade as a full OPL3, GM Wavetable rom bank, and up to 24 PCM channels with support for up to 4mb of sample memory. Problem was, sound card builders treated it like a low budget toy. OPL3 mode for FM and GM bank for MIDI. I don't think there was a single PC …

Re: First MIDI compatible sound card?

Posted on 2023-07-13, 11:30

Not a "PC," but Yamaha sold their first MSX computers with the SFG-01 (YM2151 OPM) sound cartridges in 1983. These cartridges contain a standard MIDI interface, but the bios only supported connecting to a MIDI data recorder (they have a separate proprietary keyboard connector). In 1984 they replaced …

Re: 2 in 1 Midi Merge

Posted on 2023-07-12, 10:33

For multiple midi inputs and outputs, you want a MIDI Patchbay. I use Eidirol UM550 myself, but they aren't cheap these days. You can often get older units on auction sites for cheap, but they will be full-rack size.

Re: SBVGM (DOS) VGM Player

Posted on 2023-05-22, 12:22

I read about this, but as it's missing OKIM6258 I'm not shure if it could be really usefull for X68K music recording Majority of X68000 games use the Oki, but there many great ones that are FM only. YM2151 has a lot of nice arcade stuff too. Regarding the YM2608, I don't know of any music on that …

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