Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2024-02-21, 21:46

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The only real hiccup I've had is that FSMP went unresponsive and locked up after I had paused playback and went back to it some time later, which made me have to terminate it and restart it, the first time I used the new driver. Apart from that, there was one other quirk where FSMP's output setting …

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2024-02-21, 18:37

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I'm using it right now and everything is working wonderfully with the MIDI Player.

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

Posted on 2024-02-20, 13:01

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I'm reading up on Valve's STEAM Audio API, which has just been made fully public and open-sourced as FOSS. It could be very useful in remastering or revamping old FPS games that used 3D Audio hardware, back when soundcards were a thing.

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Re: Yamaha DB50XG Windows 98SE problem?

Posted on 2024-02-18, 23:57

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Those are MIDI files with embedded commands that one can use to shift/reset the hardware mode. https://retronn.de/ftp/driver/Yamaha/db50xg/DB50XGE.pdf

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 20:33

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The SC-8820 is small and lightweight, so it fits your basic requirements, but the Dreamblaster x16GS in an external CHILL casing would give you the most quality and portability. For "checks all the boxes", the best choice would be a first-version X2GS in the matching shell-case. Thanks, I'll check …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 16:18

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The SC-8820 is small and lightweight, so it fits your basic requirements, but the Dreamblaster x16GS in an external CHILL casing would give you the most quality and portability. For "checks all the boxes", the best choice would be a first-version X2GS in the matching shell-case.

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 15:53

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For your particular setup, a good choice would be one of the old portable Edirol (Roland subsidiary) Studio Canvas modules or one of the portable Yamaha XG modules, both of which are still readily available for purchase on eBay and other such sites. Is there a specific or example module you'd be …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 14:01

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For your particular setup, a good choice would be one of the old portable Edirol (Roland subsidiary) Studio Canvas modules or one of the portable Yamaha XG modules, both of which are still readily available for purchase on eBay and other such sites.

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 13:35

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Dreamblaster X2GS would be good enough for most people. Yeah, I've been looking at those, but I don't really understand what I'm looking at- are these daughter boards to a (specific) host card? Or can they connect as an external device? And as for the Roland sounds, are these similar to a soundfont …

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

Posted on 2024-01-08, 13:54

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I'm going through the Windows MIDI Discord right now. There's some interesting technical stuff and discussions going on and they have Developer Preview versions of their software, for Windows 11. I understand some of it, but it's really something that the code goblins would better enjoy and …

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Re: Why doesn't modern Windows advertise DirectDraw in any way?

Posted on 2023-12-31, 16:13

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I can't speak about AMD, but their APUs are insanely popular amongst the "old games" enthusiast crowd that buys the AMD-powered mini-PCs, so it would make sense for them to put some work into their drivers, for that demographic. Intel has put in work for DX9 games via their xE/Arc GPU drivers, …

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Re: List of Win9x games with surround sound support

Posted on 2023-12-05, 20:57

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The game packaging said "Dolby Digital", which was definitely used on Xbox, but I can't say anyone has said anything firm about the PC version having it, despite the package graphics. Nvidia's NForce chipsets with Dolby Digital sound were a big thing in gaming systems back then and the box sports …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2023-12-04, 13:06

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From what I read in the DREAM programming guide and chip specs, you can get USB audio output if it's turned on in the firmware and it uses two of the unallocated CPU cores on the DREAM chips. I don't think it is enabled on the X2/X16 products, as nobody has said anything about it. Otherwise, you …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2023-11-28, 11:42

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Also, seems the SE version has the usb port, but not the audio out? how does that even???? What exactly do you need an audio out for on a waveblaster board anyhow? I mean, it was nice enough of Serge to include it originally but the purpose always kind of eluded me. The point of the audio out was …

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

Posted on 2023-11-22, 22:03

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The upcoming high-end AMD APUs are absolute beasts for 1080P gaming and media use, because they finally incorporate AMD's latest GPU and CPU tech. On older titles from the early 2000's to early 2010's, you will be able to max out the graphics settings with no performance issues, except when driver/ …

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Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card

Posted on 2023-11-22, 21:34

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What the S means, I don't know, but several ES692 designs exist in alternate packages and whatnot.

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

Posted on 2023-11-21, 19:51

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All my IoT stuff is connected to my Guest Network, which is completely separated from my regular network and it's traffic, by both the router's internal settings and the network frequency, so those devices can do whatever they want or need to, without bothering or connecting to any other devices …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2023-11-20, 23:56

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Yamaha's last ditch effort at pushing XG on the PC was to make a (basic) XG DLS sound bank available for free, which you can reverse-repackage as a bank for DREAM chips. The intention for this DLS bank was to give a taste of XG to the gaming industry and consumers, with the idea that game studios …

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Re: Adventure remakes

Posted on 2023-10-29, 21:25

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Microsoft is eager to monetize all the IP they got with the AB buyout and the Sierra classics are known to those at Microsoft who have voices and leadership positions, like Phil Spencer, who has mentioned them a few times. What that means for the future, is anyone's guess, but I'm sure that …

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Re: Yamaha XG emulation at last

Posted on 2023-10-29, 16:24

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I'm very happy with the XG VST and have no complaints, as it takes whatever I throw at it, especially since Falco hammered down a proper VSTi driver for everyone to use. What we really need though, is a hacked XG soft-synth, with the primo soundset lifted from the SW1000XG - and it's add-in cards - …

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