Re: Roland SC-88 versus SC-88 Pro?

Posted on 2017-05-21, 05:52

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Exactly the same thing internally, and is a digital sound card as well. I love mine. 8850 is a bit more interface friendly but I wish it had digital outs. SC-D70 has ben useful many a time for me.

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Re: Roland SC-88 versus SC-88 Pro?

Posted on 2017-05-17, 06:58

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For GM gaming, a 55 or 88 will be the way to go (probably 55). For further applications the 88Pro and 8820/50 are far more advanced modules and are definitely better. The default drumkit on the 88Pro is kind of lame, so I would certainly advise against picking it for GM gaming just based on that. It …

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Re: Munt Reloaded - Development

Posted on 2017-04-12, 02:46

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gdjacobs: 32 bit floats have their purpose. It's probably what I'd use if I wanted to create an MT-32 sample based remix track. However, I'm not too excited about it from a listening point of view. Just curious about this statement. What would be undesirable about a higher quality render from a …

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Re: Last game made for mt 32

Posted on 2017-04-07, 03:42

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Pretty likely it would have been in 1992. PQ1VGA and Laura Bow 2 were 2 of the last Sierra games to have MT-32 composed scores (probably the last two). King's Quest 6 kinda sorta had some tracks optimized for the MT-32 but it is a bit nebulous as to how much. The score was composed for General MIDI. …

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Re: Request for floating point arithmetic version

Posted on 2017-04-05, 01:55

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Thanks sergm. 😀 (BTW, could you PM me an email address? I have something I want to ask privately.) Would it just convert the 16-bit file to 32-bit later or would it do the conversion using a 32-bit WAVE as output?

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Re: Request for floating point arithmetic version

Posted on 2017-04-04, 05:00

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When using smf2wav, is it possible to add a feature to convert the MIDI data as 32-bit (floating) to take advantage of the higher bit depth in this floating point MUNT version?

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Re: Roland SC-D70

Posted on 2017-04-03, 07:52

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Why would it be? I can't think of any other module that has 4 maps that represent different synths.. I'm not talking about variation tones.

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Re: Roland SC-D70

Posted on 2017-04-03, 04:48

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The SC-D70 is an upgrade over the SC-88Pro. It basically gives the same samples but with digital output, which upgrades the quality a bit. I have had one for about 9 years now. In all the recordings I used the 8850 for, I used actually a D70 (except one or two patches which sound different like the …

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Re: Roland CM-500 Demos

Posted on 2017-04-03, 04:42

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Hello, I recently stumbled into this forum while I was looking to learn how to use DOSBox. I was looking to make a couple of good demo videos of my Roland CM-500 module in action with the idea of listing it for sale. But now I'm hooked on DOSBox. Now I can't stop playing Commander Keen 4. Anyway, …

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Re: Space Quest I VGA Hacking

Posted on 2017-04-02, 13:37

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Pretty dang awesome NRS and co. Really appreciate it, SQ1VGA was definitely half-assed (although that adds a certain charm to it in some ways). It feels like the Deltaur part of the game was drastically unfinished, hardly any descriptors, puzzles or music in it at all! Only skimmed (SQ1 pun there) …

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Re: Audio buffer in MUNT

Posted on 2017-03-03, 01:00

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Thanks sergm, I will try it. With the WDM-KS I was almost synced to my external synth, there was a fraction of a second delay only. Enough for the drums to sound out of sync slightly, but only only just. I appreciate your time and will try those solutions. I believe my main synth has a 48 KHz …

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Re: Audio buffer in MUNT

Posted on 2017-03-02, 09:52

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Still a bit of lag with this setup. Much lower than the original post but still enough to render non functional. Sergm, any update to the situation for ASIO support? No idea how to recompile or use a binary DLL, or I would do that 😀

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Re: Is there a comprehensive list of games with additional sounds on the CM-32L?

Posted on 2017-02-22, 05:44

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The thing about the hardware faults is that they only really apply to sound effects. The ones I know of with Sierra, are ELEC.SHOCK in Larry 3 and others like that. There might be one instrument in SQ3 that has wrong vibrato, but we're talking about 0.01% of cases. A CM-32L should provide better …

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Re: I Love the Realism of the SC-55's Overdriven and Distorted Guitars!

Posted on 2017-02-17, 03:36

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Thanks Cloud. I don't like the lack of realism, but I always liked the sound. In a Sierra context, Eastern Fricana Jungle, Muscle Beach (anything from Larry 6), and QFG4 tracks were pretty good. Apparently Dale Stump who helped Aubrey Hodges on QFG4 was a MIDI guitar whiz, and in Larry 6 Neal …

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Re: Roland D-110 Control ROM dump -- how about adding it to MUNT?

Posted on 2017-02-17, 03:17

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Brilliant idea! Much harder synth to get hold of than a MT-32 so always good for preservation. And the output of the D-110 could be considered overall superior, it's just that so many games were tweaked for the MT that they won't sound as good on a D-110. However some probably would. I suggest …

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Re: Request for floating point arithmetic version

Posted on 2016-12-26, 05:22

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Spikey, this shouldn't be an issue. It's just a matter of setting a compiler define, so I can easily build something if you provide details which tool you'd like to have and for which platform. But I still think that enabling this option isn't too advantageous. Perhaps, it's rather specific. See, …

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Request for floating point arithmetic version

Posted on 2016-12-14, 15:22

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Hey sergm and others, I would have PM'd you this but you have that feature disabled for some reason. Basically, I have heard some samples a friend recorded where he tweaked the source code for a project of his and enabled floating point instead of integer, which stopped the MT-32's quantization …

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Re: Audio buffer in MUNT

Posted on 2016-11-17, 12:34

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Looks like using the WDM-KS driver works. I just didn't realise it was an option because at the default settings of 0, 0 and 0 it will fail, you have to set it to 10/40/15 or a usual combination. KS = Kernel Streaming, it works outside of normal memory and so has no lag pretty much.

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Re: Audio buffer in MUNT

Posted on 2016-11-16, 10:41

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Sorry to revive an old thread but I ran into the same issue with a new setup. Basically, if I use an external MT-32 and external synth together, it syncs up fine, but if I try and use MUNT with my external synth, and mix them together, there is noticeable lag in playback. Now using Win 7 Pro, but …

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Re: Adlib stereo in DOSBox?

Posted on 2016-09-12, 11:08

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There has been cases of Apogee fans using two OPL3 chips to get stereo sound: http://publiccommanderkeenforum.yuku.com/topic/1686/Prosject-OPL3X2 To be more precise about my original post, I'm talking about the techniques used in AdPlug, which were used in DSx86, basically DOSBox for Nintendo DS. I …

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