Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2025-03-01, 15:09

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Hey everyone, I recently picked up a Roland RA-50, and I’m running into an issue I’d love some help with. Every time I power it on (using a 9V DC adapter), I get a "Check Internal Battery" message on the display. The unit seems to work fine otherwise, but I’m worried it might be losing settings or …

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Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2025-03-01, 15:07

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Hello From RA-95 has somebody informations about MT-32 or SC-55 compatibility? Thank you! It is a GM/GS synth. Probably ala the SC-55, minus MT-32 tones so probably equivalent to a SC-50. The E-66 (or perhaps 86) keyboard appears to be the same product in keyboard form for further information. In …

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Re: Strange MIDI synth behaviour

Posted on 2025-03-01, 14:58

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Based on the service notes, the EM-10 is a weird hybrid of the mkI and II. It uses the patch list and wave ROM of the SC-50 (which itself is a SC-55mkII minus MT-32 tones and that relevant Wave ROM), but uses the DAC of the original SC-55 (i.e. the least good one in the SC line). As far as the …

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Re: Adventure Soundfont recommendation

Posted on 2025-02-19, 05:58

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For most adventures you will want to use MUNT for MT-32 games, or the Nuked emulator for SC-55 games. If you prefer soundfonts, Roland SC-55 faithful ones like "Deemster"'s are good, otherwise it's more a case of experimenting and finding something you enjoy for GM music. Most (but obviously not all …

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MUNT feature request - dark mode?

Posted on 2025-02-19, 05:55

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Hey folks, Just installed the latest MUNT this week and while it's good, I'd love if a dark mode UI was available as an option, as it is visually a very bright piece of software. As I am not a coder, I have no idea how easy/difficult that is to implement, but thought I'd ask! Thanks for all you do/ …

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

Posted on 2025-02-19, 05:53

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Very nice! Keen to try that one out, sounds more MUNT-like.

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Re: Strange MIDI synth behaviour

Posted on 2025-02-17, 12:00

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You'll need to provide the MIDI files and recordings/videos of what it sounds like. By the EM-10, you mean the Roland home keyboard, I presume? Basically a Sound Canvas. I would presume MIDI is a binary state (either the data transmits or it doesn't), so if it's being transferred then that part is …

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Re: Games that uses the CM-32L specific sound effects

Posted on 2025-02-13, 13:25

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I just wanted to pop in here and say that a casual browse of this thread sent me on a wild goose chase for an actual list of games that have extra\different effects when using a CM32L or CM64. I stumbled across a long-deleted wikipedia article with a proper list, but it is technically "gone". …

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Re: E-20 Voice Board / MT-32

Posted on 2025-02-12, 07:39

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The E-20 is equivalent to a second gen MT-32, the E-10 might be a first gen. The E-30 is a 3rd gen (CM-32L with some extra features/instruments). However, it looks like all 3 models use a different patch order than the MT-32/CM-32L, rendering them incompatible with the MT-32 for gaming purposes, …

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Re: Update SC-55 ROM

Posted on 2025-02-12, 07:11

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Ok, so i cannot hear one single instrument, that is it? There are sometimes way bigger differences between the final result (mk1 vs mk2), than this. Eg system shock. The most common scenario is where a composer used the wrong instrument for a drumkit, which means on an original, the correct drumkit …

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Re: Sound Canvas (and related) comparison project (UPDATED: 22nd March)

Posted on 2025-01-31, 09:53

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Well, we both learned something today! As far as bringing it full circle, I'm not interested in including every random GS keyboard, and it's not really what old gamers care about in any case. Some exceptions for keys like the JV-50 (literally a SC-50 keys with JV expandability, but possibly with …

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Re: Sound Canvas (and related) comparison project (UPDATED: 22nd March)

Posted on 2025-01-31, 06:12

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Roland still uses a basic GS offering on it's home/studio pianos, for the purposes of MIDI file accompaniment and composition, but I'm pretty sure that it's been gone from their production and performance keyboard line for many years now, probably since the early 2000's. Yamaha also still has their …

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Re: Sound Canvas (and related) comparison project (UPDATED: 22nd March)

Posted on 2025-01-27, 04:30

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Yeah, basically hundreds of Roland keyboards used either direct Sound Canvas sample sets, or supersets of them - some new ones still have the SC-8820/50 set but expanded. There is probably 200+ keyboards that would meet the criteria, but nearly no-one in this space will have them. I think all the …

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

Posted on 2025-01-08, 07:18

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However, SC-55 mkI has lower polyphony.. so adding CTF to mkII is a good scenario, unless I'm misunderstanding how some things work in the Nuked project. except things that rely on CTF were composed on a unit that has it, including those polyphony limits so adding more polyphony with CTF isnt going …

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

Posted on 2025-01-06, 15:24

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However, SC-55 mkI has lower polyphony.. so adding CTF to mkII is a good scenario, unless I'm misunderstanding how some things work in the Nuked project.

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Re: Easiest/cheapest way to test MIDI interfaces?

Posted on 2024-12-23, 05:45

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Hey there! What do you mean by "PC hardware"? Like, a MIDI module or sound card? Or a soundcard with a breakout cable and MIDI ports? Also, is this on a vintage or modern PC?

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Re: successfully works MT-32 sound on the Roland D-110. ( MTD32 )

Posted on 2024-12-20, 05:48

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How is it still going? Is progress being made on it? The truth is that I have a d-110 that I don't use and I'm really looking forward to this mod. Please keep us informed with any news. Hopefully you know, but if not - the first Sierra MIDI games, from KQ4 (1988) to KQ5 (1990), can all be played …

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Re: Gabriel Knight CD (1993) Repaired Speech - All Versions

Posted on 2024-11-30, 17:42

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Alrighty, I evaluated a few different formats; LZMA-compressed xdelta with some tweaked window sizes won over everything else I tried. The patch (~181MB) is available here , and I used Delta Patcher to apply it as a test. I haven't tested the game again thoroughly but hopefully there aren't any …

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Re: Gabriel Knight CD (1993) Repaired Speech - All Versions

Posted on 2024-11-29, 05:25

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Arguing hypothetical legal issues is beyond fruitless - if that were true, almost all mods which alter original data would be illegal. And heck, they probably are. Which is insane, but what else is new? It's been a known issue for 30 years, the ScummVM developers are well aware of it. My fix worked …

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Re: Are multiple MT-32 (and CM-32) BIOSes useful for emulation?

Posted on 2024-11-29, 05:17

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This page has a list of mt32 compatible games with the specific model recomended https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_MT-32-compatible_computer_games There's a lot of good information on here, looks like NRS edited it because not many would know this level of information. Although, every …

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