Re: Getting wavetable support for certain games

Posted on 2018-03-16, 12:54

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by Falcosoft

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However, Sierra games do the reverse :) GM games send CC #6 (Data Entry MSB) at a value of 12 (maybe to ensure compatibility with the MT-32?). To quote NewRisingSun: Actually it makes sense if the original version is written for MT-32. So in GM games Sierra sets Pitch Bend Range to 12 since this …

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Re: My new 4GiB soundfont for SC88Pro, XG1, CM-32L, works with BASSMIDI only

Posted on 2018-03-16, 10:17

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by Falcosoft

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SC-8820/50 supports basic XG, called "XG lite". I doubt effects are supported, not sure how many instruments are supported. It seems to be an undocumented feature then. According to below forum post it's only an instrument remapping feature: https://hardforum.com/threads/old-school-sound.1700573/ …

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Re: Getting wavetable support for certain games

Posted on 2018-03-16, 09:55

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by Falcosoft

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This is because the MT-32 only has standard MIDI channels 2-10. :) So as you say, there is no point emulating further. Yes, by default Parts 1-9 are assigned to channels 2-10. But with the help of SysEx messages you can configure this association differently. So in theory there could be midi files/ …

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Re: Converting Arithmetic Expressions to Assembly

Posted on 2018-03-15, 21:39

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by Falcosoft

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Hi, It's an interesting idea and actually it can be quite useful. Just a few observations: 1. It treats everything as floating point. So the simple arithmetic expression '1+1' generates single precision FPU code instead of more reasonable integer code. So the code is only 486DX+ compatible and …

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Re: My new 4GiB soundfont for SC88Pro, XG1, CM-32L, works with BASSMIDI only

Posted on 2018-03-15, 20:10

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Here you can find the documentation of all Roland Sound Canvas devices with complete Midi implementation charts. XG as a Midi system is not even mentioned :) https://www.roland.com/us/support/manual_archive/ Also you can test with FSMP and Sound Canvas VA VSTi plugin. That's the most complete SC- …

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Re: My new 4GiB soundfont for SC88Pro, XG1, CM-32L, works with BASSMIDI only

Posted on 2018-03-15, 19:04

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One more thing: SC88 and beyond do EFX parameters that do not appear to be in bassmidi. This mean ambitious compositions will sound more like dry recordings unless XG effects are used instead. Those DO work on SC88Pro, 8820, 8850, and BassMidi. There may be less options though. Unfortunately it's …

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Re: RemapCMI - Tool for emulating DOS audio ports on C-Media CMI8x38 soundcards

Posted on 2018-03-15, 06:54

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It doesn't have any digital audio afaik. You can only select one audio device anyway, so it's AdLib Gold or nothing. If you select Sound Blaster as audio device Dune uses digital audio samples but you can count them on 1 hand :) As far as I remember: 1. In the intro when the worm appears 2. When …

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Re: Getting wavetable support for certain games

Posted on 2018-03-14, 18:08

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Also, panning... I recall that MT-32 had left and right reversed? Yes, it's true but I don't think it's highly relevant. At least it never disturbed me. Yea, do you happen to have some sample MIDI files for MT-32 with some good pitch bends? I have attached Dune 1 arrakis.mid just as a relevant …

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Re: Getting wavetable support for certain games

Posted on 2018-03-14, 16:19

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Hi, In theory you are absolutely right: with the help of SysEx messages you can associate any midi channels with any parts on MT-32. But in practice I have never met midi files intended to be played on MT-32 that used different channel layout than the default 2-10. There are many MT-32 midis that …

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Re: My new 4GiB soundfont for SC88Pro, XG1, CM-32L, works with BASSMIDI only

Posted on 2018-03-14, 08:38

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Hi, I have just tested your soundfont a little and it's generally quite good. Just a few observations: 1. The Orchestra (Symphony in your sf2) drum set is too quiet compared to other drums/instruments. Good test files are Warcraft intro midi and Duke Nukem Futurmil.mid. Especially note E3(40) is too …

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Re: Inability to Repeat MIDI on playback in Win98

Posted on 2018-03-13, 11:38

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You can also try FSMP. It can also send midi resets (GM, GM2, GS, XG, NX, MT-32) and supports much other things that other players do not. E.g it supports the HW soundfont synth of your Audigy natively (so you can load soundfonts real time and can see the real instrument names of the soundfont): …

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Re: CPUidle...

Posted on 2018-03-10, 15:26

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A possible free alternative for DOS systems (and Win95/98 DOS Box) is DOSIdle. I mainly used it under VirtualPC with DOS 6.22 in order not to use 1 core at 100% all the time (and it worked). https://maribu.home.xs4all.nl/zeurkous/downlo … or/dosidle.html

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-03-09, 17:46

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Hi, version 5.3 of FSMP is released. The test zips are no longer available. http://falcosoft.hu/softwares.html#midiplayer version 5.3 1. Added Folder.syx support. It works similar to Folder.sf2. If you put a Folder.syx file into a folder all the midi files in that folder will load the syx file …

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Re: CoolSoft MIDIMapper

Posted on 2018-03-07, 16:08

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I will uninstall MidiMapper tonight and put virtualsynth back in and see as you could be correct in that I only had the midi device selector and perhaps not the midi out option. You don't need to. That's how the 'Midi Mapper' tab of newer VirtualMidiSynths looks like without Coolsoft Midi Mapper …

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Re: CoolSoft MIDIMapper

Posted on 2018-03-07, 15:21

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@CrossBow777: Not true, up until about a week ago, I still had virtualsynth installed and was using it on my Win10 - 64bit to select various soundfonts for use. I don't think you fully understand the purpose of Coolsoft Midi Mapper. It's not to select various soundfonts. The purpose of midi mapper …

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Re: CoolSoft MIDIMapper

Posted on 2018-03-07, 07:27

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Am I missing out on anything by not getting Coolsoft's to work? It's only a must-have for the small subset of games/apps that only use the default MIDI device and don't provide any way to pick a different device. It's a must have on Win8/10 since the default midi mapper is missing. As brad86 has …

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Re: Pure DOS rig people, want to test this thing I wrote?

Posted on 2018-03-06, 18:32

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Hi, System requirements (currently): -386 or better (the FB compiler produces 32-bit protected mode 386 code) It seems the FB compiler produces code that also requires an FPU. I could not test it on my 25 MHz 486SX since engine.exe quits with error: 'Coprocessor not available at eip=0002b405'. On …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2018-03-04, 13:33

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Hi, I don't really understand what your problem is (maybe an attached picture could help). So I can only tell what the situation is with drum channel(s)/Midi systems in general. Channel 10 as a drum channel is only guaranteed in GM. In GS the default (after a GS Reset) is the same as in GM but SysEx …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2018-03-01, 18:07

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by Falcosoft

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SCVA 1.0.3 (and other of course) don't work for me in WinXP - no sounds at all. Neither trial nor cracked one. I have noticed that SCCore.dll from SC-VA 1.0.3 trial has an implicit dependency on msvcr100.dll. If this file is missing SC-VA does not show any errors but the synth remains silent. So on …

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Re: Getting wavetable support for certain games

Posted on 2018-03-01, 13:53

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by Falcosoft

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That would make more sense, but my tests with the S2P didn't seem to support this behaviour. My first implementation would just send the CC 0, 127 to all MIDI channels at startup, but that didn't work. Instead of sending only the Bank Select MSB messages maybe you can try to send the Bank Select …

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