Re: Roland SC-55 power supply

Posted on 2024-05-16, 15:10

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I replaced it with non-official ones that meets the specs, for MT-32 and SC-55 and any other old synth that has a noisy old power supply. From memory, almost all MIDI modules use the same barrel, or very very close to. Certainly Roland modules all use the same size from my experience. Of course some …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-16, 13:26

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For the sake of discussion but also an eagerness to learn. Why do you (generally?) want a gap at the beginning and end? Well, it depends on the scenario. In the UltraProteus I wanted it so I could remove awful shrill noise from the recording and make it listenable! In this case, we don't know …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-16, 13:22

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This is small selection from Descent 2 credits theme. I know, I could've mute drums so I wouldn't need to cut this part out, but hey. Sounds like aliasing but it's way too short a sample. Please include the whole track for proper analysis, with a gap at the start and end. Here's the longer version. …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-15, 06:15

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Maybe it's my fault, but even with 32-bit output there's some audible clipping. Can you share an example of such clipping? Actually clipping in the traditional sense should not happen even in the 16-bit integer/master version since version 0.1.1. https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55/commit/ …

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Re: Rout midi to sc-55 and back in to my computer with um-one?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 12:31

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Yeah, you won't want to use mic connectors at all. As said above, you need: 1. Headphones - just plug your headphones into the SC-55, possibly with adapter OR 2. RCA to whatever connector required to pipe your SC-55 into your mobo audio etc. Even if your mobo audio is "bad", if it has line-in, this …

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Re: Rout midi to sc-55 and back in to my computer with um-one?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 07:36

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Using headphones or running the outs to another audio device are your options, I'm afraid.

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Re: Roland MT-120

Posted on 2024-05-12, 08:21

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Just had a look and it uses the UPD6736 DAC which itself appears to be the 16-bit only baby brother of the UPD63200. It's pin-compatible, with the only difference being that pin 3 that selects between 16/18-bit on the UPD63200 is not connected on the UPD6736. I imagine you could 'upgrade' it if …

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Re: MT-32 Editor- a new timbre editor and patch librarian for 64-bit Windows

Posted on 2024-05-11, 16:11

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Just finally used this for the first time tonight. Thank you, @sfryers!! It is incredibly useful being able to load a game SysEx and see things like whether a patch has reverb enabled, what pitch bend setting it uses, and so on. Incredible stuff! I do have one question about the Rhythm Area. The CM- …

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Re: Roland MT-120

Posted on 2024-05-11, 07:42

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It's worth explaining that a SC-50 is in fact a SC-55mkII minus MT-32 tones. And that's what this unit is, a SC-50 with sequencer - well, probably! I don't believe the service notes/manual are available for this device, so it's hard to be sure that it uses the UPD63200 DAC, and so on. It could be a …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II - Wrong drums with Yamaha DB50XG

Posted on 2024-05-11, 07:19

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In the sound folder there are music files for different devices going by the extentions (mid, gvs, awe, lap, sbl). Replacing deadp.mid with deadp.gvs (Gravis, GF1 patchset has 1 drumkit) results in a different instrument selection for the level The Deadpool but the weird drumkit is still selected. …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-11, 07:10

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Actually, I'm pretty excited for the JV-880 emulation. Anyone musician here who used the hardware before? It sounds pretty good in this video. '90s good :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19yOA2GrSE It just *begs* to be converted into a CLAP plugin :D My understanding is it's totally useless for …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-11, 07:07

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On SR-JV80-07, I recently did a comparison of what's missing (from the SO-PCM1 cards). And there's quite a lot, 3MB as Python Blue says. Although, 1MB of this was added to the JV-90/1000 and beyond (the piano card, which obviously is NOT in the 80/880). Plus, Roland itself mentions something like …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II - Wrong drums with Yamaha DB50XG

Posted on 2024-05-09, 06:18

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Those are almost all Sierra games, which are decompiled and able to be patched. I doubt other game companies will be as easy. A hex editor should allow you to find SysEx, although it could be a lot to look through. Google for what GM SysEx looks like.

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Re: Mortal Kombat II - Wrong drums with Yamaha DB50XG

Posted on 2024-05-08, 15:19

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I've noticed with Mortal Kombat II that when I use the DreamBlaster X2GS I get the power kit instead of the standard kit in-game. Using the DB50XG it defaults to the standard kit, even after a GS reset (GM mode doesn't do GS drum kits?). The power kit seems correct, going by the Sega Saturn music …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 11:28

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You said your opinions are facts, for one thing ;) But maybe I overread what you were saying. I agree that SCVA is close. But given that it is inaccurate, designed to emulate a device which itself does not accurately emulate a SC-55, then it should not be held up or conflated with an accurate …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 08:17

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Another advantage of Nuked SC55 over SCVA is portability. I don’t really feel like spinning up a copy of Falcosoft MIDI Player in wine to host a virtual midi port on Linux. Then again, I guess it’s not much more or less overhead than running an instance of the emulator, except I have to use a drm …

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Re: Space Quest 1 VGA Sound Format

Posted on 2024-05-03, 07:28

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Since I have the master files for SQ1VGA's SFX, I can tell you: - there's 49 digital sound effects, at least in the master collection. I haven't gone through them all to see if any are unused, dupes etc - there seems to be 36 digital sound effects in my in-game records - the original file format of …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-18, 05:30

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Strange! I wasn't aware the devices have different sample rates. I'm familiar with MUNT, though.

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-17, 10:48

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So I have a question about the odd sampling rate this emulator uses: On the Wikipedia Article it lists 18-bit @ 33.1 kHz as the output format of the SC-55mkii but the emulator is outputting a sample rate of 66207 . (and I assume the audio samples themselves are floats because there's no such thing …

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Re: EMU Proteus/1 support for Sierra games?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 05:46

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florian3 wrote on 2024-04-14, 12:13: Spikey wrote on 2024-04-14, 09:46: @Florian, still would love it if you could upload SQ5 and KQ6 in lossless so I can remove the noise. I don’t have a lossless version, would need to record it again. If you can, that would be appreciated. 😀

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