Re: Quest For Glory 4 - Igor Hitting Tomb Stone Sound Effect Help

Posted on 2018-12-23, 07:44

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I think I actually chose to play the game in Windows, now that I have thought about it. Not sure I was able to get it working in DOS without the IRQ issue.

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Re: Quest For Glory 4 - Igor Hitting Tomb Stone Sound Effect Help

Posted on 2018-12-23, 07:24

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Most of what you have mentioned doesn't relate, but I believe it is an IRQ conflict. I had this about 15 years ago when I last played QFG4 on original hardware. Almost no Sierra games have this issue, but QFG4 conflicted with digital sound and the SC-55 (I was using a SB AWE32 for digital audio). I …

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Re: Are There Any Source Ports for Doom/Doom 2 + Expansions That Support External MIDI Devices?

Posted on 2018-12-11, 05:21

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It's pretty close, but it isn't the same, as NRS says. Also, "Strings" (patch 48) that he mentions is used widely In soundtracks, one of the most common patches.

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Re: More about Sierra's Music Cards

Posted on 2018-12-06, 14:01

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Sierra demo tape and EASE both can be found on QuestStudios, hopefully both still findable in the new host version of the page.

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Re: Quest For Glory 4 - Igor Hitting Tomb Stone Sound Effect Help

Posted on 2018-12-06, 14:00

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by Spikey

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The game is intended to use a SC-55 in GM or GS mode, possibly a SC-55mkII due to polyphony requirements. What MIDi setting are you using in the install program/resource.cfg config file?

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Re: MT32 sending signal through Left(mono channel) and fx through right channel.

Posted on 2018-11-29, 14:50

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I mean, the only possibilities are the right output on your MT-32 is busted (could check by plugging into something else), or the input on your mixer is busted. I highly doubt the FX is outputted on one channel, it is probably just a very very attenuated sound, caused by a faulty jack. I had that …

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Re: Quest For Glory 4 - Igor Hitting Tomb Stone Sound Effect Help

Posted on 2018-11-28, 04:19

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What settings do you have in resource.cfg? Especially for digital sound. And how are other sound effects doing besides the tombstone?

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Re: PC for MT-32

Posted on 2018-11-25, 20:24

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All I know is, 7th Guest was composed for GM, and the 7/11 soundtrack CD has SC-55 recordings. George Sanger has talked about it being a GM composition, and regardless of whether it was edited for MT-32 playback or not, it doesn't sound anywhere near as good compared to the native SC version. Edit: …

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Re: PC for MT-32

Posted on 2018-11-25, 12:09

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Slightly OT, but the 11th Hour (and 7th Guest for that matter) are General MIDI games, and will NOT sound great on the MT-32. Should sound sub par most of the time! If it sounds OK, it's chance only, the music was composed for GM and I don't believe it was converted for MT-32 playback.

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2018-11-19, 11:50

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You playing Win or DOS? Either way, chances are it's an audio buffer size issue. Controlled by audiosize or similar parameter in resource.cfg/resource.win.

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Re: Which "old-type" Roland MT-32 to get for DOS games?

Posted on 2018-07-15, 07:34

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I'd be surprised if any game released after 1989 would specifically require a MT-32 just because the composer prefered the way it sounded on it, or because he wanted to exploit some quirks that were not available on the CM-32. Economically speaking, that wouldn't have made any sense. Although it's …

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Re: Roland SC-7 serial midi

Posted on 2018-07-15, 07:30

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Even in XP I always had annoying issues trying to get drivers set up, or things working the way they should. Both with Roland and Yamaha synths. Always went back to regular MIDI cables.

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2018-04-26, 12:57

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Yeah, I would love that too. They are completely coded/programmed differently, so it is not a simple patch or fix. I'm sure it could be done, but the effort required is probably prohibitive. Curious to hear NewRisingSun's opinion. Guybrush: I advise against using Roland MT-32 for TIM games, the …

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Re: Roland Sound Canvas Sc-50

Posted on 2018-03-22, 13:24

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In that case, it sounds like a bargain!

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Re: Roland Sound Canvas Sc-50

Posted on 2018-03-22, 03:28

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To go back to the OP's question, the SC-50 should be fine for most cases of GM. I prefer having the higher polyphony of a SC-55mkII, but nothing wrong with a SC-50. I believe MUNT is also not limited to a 32khz sampling rate or the 14~15bit resolution of the hardware MT-32. Yes, I share NRS's …

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Re: Sound Canvas model selection

Posted on 2018-03-22, 03:17

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Sorry for this small detour, but reading through these comments, what would be marks against the SC-88VL for this intended purpose? Just curious, have a similar consideration myself. There's really no marks 'against' any Sound Canvas option between the SC-55 and SC-8850 timeline, however for …

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Re: Sound Canvas model selection

Posted on 2018-03-21, 14:36

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People often talk about the 88Pro, but I don't see the benefits of it over the SC-8850 (aside from a marginally cheaper price). The 8850 has much better technology plus an 88Pro map, and the drumkits are far superior to the (IMO quite average) ones in the 88Pro. The GM map is overall quite a bit …

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Re: Roland Sound Canvas Sc-50

Posted on 2018-03-21, 14:34

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Not true, MUNT (the latest version) emulates the MT-32 almost perfectly, and for 99.9% of cases perfectly. derSammler: Yamaha devices that have it have it as part of a Roland GS compatibility mode (in every case I can think of). Kawai I am not sure about, but I would imagine it is a similar …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-03-21, 04:43

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Playing the old Super Solvers series games from the Learning Company, since this forum showed me how to use Win 3.1 in DOSBox!!

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Re: SC-55 acting weird.

Posted on 2018-03-21, 04:41

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Make sure the adapter is correct also, that could be too much power/not enough (also check polarity). I think I have had that exact scenario pop up before. Also, consider checking the battery, which there is a long dedicated thread on this forum about.

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