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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-01-31, 17:04

Just another quick report. Tender Loving Care (Windows DVD-ROM version): This FMV game does not work on Windows 10 (or 8 I'd assume) due to graphic corruption in the game sections. Those work dgVoodoo, however, the bulk of the video plays back using MCI I believe (and in a separate, overlayed …

Re: Doom95 under Windows 10

Posted on 2016-01-29, 17:38

in Windows
For me, Windows 10 is better for old games because: most of the old games that I use to play on modern systems almost all had the 256 color bug, and that doesn't exist with 10, so for me it's better :p One of the problems with Win 10, and 8 for that matter, is that they always use 32-bit colour …

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

Posted on 2016-01-22, 02:16

How rigorous was the testing to label something as GM compliant? You can write all the paper in the world, but if there's no method of evaluation (even self evaluation), it's useless. I don't know how rigorously it was tested, but the spec wasn't terribly hard to meet. The problem, in terms of …

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

Posted on 2016-01-21, 03:23

Hmm, been playing around with my SC-155 and SC-8820. The string sounds in the SC-55 map were definitely changed somewhere after the 55 models, so the VSTi is probably quite accurate to the 8820 (from the samples, I suspect not entirely accurate, but I don't have it to test against). As was …

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

Posted on 2016-01-20, 12:31

And their target market is probably not DOS gamers. I agree... I think this software was mainly developped for the japanese market. From what I've seen online, it seems they have a bigger community interested in legacy midi equipment than anywhere else. Yep. There was a lot of music composed for …

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

Posted on 2016-01-11, 02:15

Yes, resetting the unit between games or even midi albums is really important. Doom sends a SysEx GM (General Midi) Reset command which on the SC-55 it will sound the same as GS. But on a later units (like SC-88 and on) a reset command will change to the default Map of the unit. Question: Can …

Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2016-01-09, 20:25

I meant to mention this months ago, but it still seems to hold true. I'm having trouble mounting more than one CD drive from images. If I do, one CD drive will mount and work correctly but accessing the other will crash the emulator. This seems true whether the images are mounted from the config …

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

Posted on 2016-01-01, 15:13

@Silanda I agree that the mix balance and instruments timbre will not be identical if playing music composed on SC-55 , on a SC-88 and up, but it will be perfectly listenable. There are odd occasions where it really isn't unless you want a headache. I've attached an example from the PC-98 game " …

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

Posted on 2015-12-30, 02:18

But, backward compatibility is perfectly fine, ie; composed on 55 will sound good on 88 and up. Not always. Some SC-55 MIDIs can be problematic because ones that were composed before the release of the SC-88 don't specify the Bank Select LSB (CC #32) value, as it had no purpose at that time. From …

Re: JaZMan SF88 soundfont?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 00:37

in Milliways
Thanks do you know in a typical GS soundfont, how many of those extra instruments are new recordings or are any going to be the same recordings from the GM soundfont with effects applied? No idea, I only really have experience with the actual hardware. If I were to guess, I'd assume from the …

Re: JaZMan SF88 soundfont?

Posted on 2015-12-27, 15:50

in Milliways
Midi wrote: Is there a big difference between GM and GS If you are playing some GS midi files with a GM only soundfont (that does have GS drumkits)? Depends, but given that the last version of GS had over 1600 sounds vs GM's 128, the difference can be massive.

Re: Roland SC-55/88 32khz limitation

Posted on 2015-12-15, 15:06

Where a sound canvas is likely superior to a soundfont, on old MIDIs anyway, is instrument volume balance. Soundfonts, although they can have much higher quality sounds, are a crapshoot in this regard. IMHO if you're listening to songs created for the sound canvas, especially GS stuff, get a sound …

Re: JaZMan SF88 soundfont?

Posted on 2015-11-22, 02:58

in Milliways
I just want a soundfont that sounds close to Lee Jackson's grabbag recording. All the roland soundfonts i've heard don't sound like his SC-88, and that SF88 recording (judging from the Canyon.mid guitar and percussion) doesn't sound like it either. Thanks for recording that BTW The one that was on …

Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.

Posted on 2015-10-27, 11:01

Cool emulator, with two caveats so far for me, both regarding sound. Firstly, the sounds don't quite sound right. It's hard to explain. Sometimes the high frequencies sound slightly filtered, but at other times they sound hissy. The sound seems to change between the two states seamlessly as the …

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