Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-04, 12:21

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If there was a way to force an SD or CF card to return a lower capacity than actual, it would probably make my life easier (any suggestions ?). I don't know the specifics, but judging from the existence of the old scam industry based around hacked cards misreporting their size, I am guessing this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-04, 07:09

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Also pretty sure there is at least 1 OPL4 card that has working DOS midi. I have an Analog Devices based ISA card with also the OPL4-ML chip, or YMF704C-S ( datasheet available at ) with 1MB GM sample set - on the card itself. This old thread shows how daughterboards based on that chip variation …

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Re: Using a vintage multi-track recorder as a mixer, namely the Roland VS-880EX - might apply to other Roland VS- units

Posted on 2020-10-04, 06:17

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If there was a way to force an SD or CF card to return a lower capacity than actual, it would probably make my life easier (any suggestions ?). I don't know the specifics, but judging from the existence of the old scam industry based around hacked cards misreporting their size, I am guessing this …

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Re: Soundcard capabilities benchmark or tool, and ASOUND ALS100 based card questions

Posted on 2020-10-02, 23:32

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For objective testing and analysis, MDFourier. I'm actually amazed that THE custom software specifically written to be a fully fledged objective analyser of sound chip outputs is barely known here at this forum mecca of soundcard technology! Hopefully it's use will spread, for the betterment of …

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Re: [SOLVED] PSA : using USB keyboard with BIOS PS/2 emulation routines does not always work well. I.E. in Jazz Jackrabb

Posted on 2020-10-02, 23:14

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I found this to be one of the very few games which did not work with Bret's USB joystick drivers for DOS. Not on my machine and setup, anyway. From that, I assumed that Jazz is probably coded using some non-standard conventions for the control interface. This thread finding Jazz to be uniquely weird …

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Re: NVIDIA has removed all tech demos that rendered a woman from their website

Posted on 2020-10-02, 01:41

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Yeah I'm gonna have to agree with this. I honestly doubt someone at Nvidia, looked at a bunch of old tech demos with skimpy latex suited girls and intentionally decided to play sides by removing them. I can't speak about intentions or motivations, but cherry-picking out the demos which featured …

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Re: NVIDIA has removed all tech demos that rendered a woman from their website

Posted on 2020-10-01, 21:26

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All part of the swinging pendulums of social trend. For example, counter-objectification is now rife in mainstream media - you won't have to watch long before seeing a female character openly going "raorrr!" and "look at that butt!", "what a hunk!" and similar about random attractive men, and no …

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Re: SC-55 stopped producing sound

Posted on 2020-10-01, 21:13

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No specific technical knowledge to share, merely a logic : If we schematically consider a hardware device to be [Input Module] -> [Processing Module] -> [Output Module], then we could consider that the problem here may lie in the Input Module.

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Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card

Posted on 2020-10-01, 20:52

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ES692 datasheet link, for the information of viewers : https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download.php?id=77fc56d73ef35a7f50c80ac5c71c70c405d6a8&type=P&term=ESS%2520Audiodrive A sample of the chip's GM sound on Youtube, using HUMAN2GM.MID from Warcraft 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …

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Re: OPL2 vs. OPL3 Audible differences, digital recording comparison

Posted on 2020-10-01, 00:22

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MDFourier is an open source project, specifically for the purpose of empirically analysing and comparing sound hardware. http://junkerhq.net/MDFourier/ It's an excellent standard for carrying out this sort of true detailed comparison, and showing the results as defined data.

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Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2020-09-28, 22:11

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Good progress being made, and extremely interesting. Thanks for posting all the detail. Looking forward to seeing how it continues.

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Re: An idea about making MIDI daughterboards from existing sound cards

Posted on 2020-09-26, 22:35

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Are any of the proposed wavetables of a quality or character special enough to warrant a large project ? To me they seem like something one would test out for fun, to see what they are like, but then for the real gaming normally go back to the sound canvas or dream blaster or whatever, products in a …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-09-22, 23:36

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Update, I got a 724 based card yesterday and tested it out, first experience with XG. It's pretty impressive! for $10. Compared with the (ahem) quite-a-lot-more I paid for my SC-55. I think, soundwise, it is just as capable. Certainly once you PowerYMF it and use the 4.61MB extended bank, the XG …

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Re: Sound Blaster Pro: Why is it the game standard?

Posted on 2020-09-22, 23:23

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I agree with points in posts above. Also I think it was a matter of serendipitous timing for the SBPro. The desktop PC market was really burgeoning in the early 90's, hand-in-hand with the explosion of related marketing. You couldn't spend 30 seconds paging through computer magazines of the day …

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Re: Where can I buy vintage hardware other from eBay?

Posted on 2020-09-20, 15:29

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Third time I've tried to register: That message just looks like they haven't set up stopforumspam properly, so nobody can register at their site at all. Should sort itself out, when the admin wakes up. :P Amibay said the same message many days when I tried to register there, some months back. So …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:30

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[hr]Do we have MDFourier analyses comparing with other cards? To show the real world (not theoretical) differences. No MATLAB or Mathematica installed, maybe next time. You can always send me an adlib gold, for me to compare with orpheus. Cheers! MDFourier is an open source project, specifically …

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Re: "Fake Sound Chips"...? Particularly Yamaha.

Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:15

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So watching that video basically shows that these "new" chips from China are likely to be recycled and re-coated and re-etched chips.... So not really fake, just used. Personally I would want to know, if a card I was buying as "new" (and which included key chips which have a "new, untarnished" …

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"Fake Sound Chips"...? Particularly Yamaha.

Posted on 2020-09-19, 22:51

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k72SFBOZ_lw I'm quite new here so I don't know if this video has been watched and discussed here before. It seems quite relevant, as here an expert talks about a lot of "not quite right" audio chips that have been on the market in recent years, particularly so-called …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-09-19, 22:45

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Do we have MDFourier analyses comparing with other cards? To show the real world (not theoretical) differences.

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-09-17, 21:39

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Very well done creating this premium product and I hope the lucky users enjoy it very much.

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