Cool stuff, I'm a big fan of oldschool GM/XG for 'real' music production too. A lot of those modules sound really nice when used properly. It's a shame GM got kind of a bad rep from crummy low-effort game conversions. I built my Shuttle XPC specifically to sit in my setup and act as a Yamaha …

jheronimus: If by speakers you mean "multimedia speakers", then mostly no. I have a pair of Creative speakers (designed by Cambridge Soundworks) that actually sound good for what they are, but being tiny they lack any bottom end whatsoever and are more suited for casual use rather than making or …

The Primax (or whatever they might be branded as) speakers are terrible! I use them mainly because they look the part and I need some form of monitoring when making music with this system. For a reality check every once in a while I have everything hooked up to my proper studio monitors at the other …

Hi all, longtime non-registered lurker here. Long story short, I'm a musician and game music composer who's been bitten by the retro MIDI bug in recent years. While I did use this kind of stuff exclusively in the late 90's/early 00's (up until software instruments and fx became a thing, basically), …