Holger Bredel has produced some Soundfonts designed to enhance the music in Descent, Descent II and other DOS games:
http://www.bredel.homepage.t-online.de/Soundf … ts-english.html
He has posted some examples for comparison between the default Creative Soundfont and his Soundfont as well.
I think, the improved version and the standard version don't really sound that different from each other.
Besides compared to a Yamaha DB50XG or Roland SC-55, Creative stuff just sounds like a joke.
locutus
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Hahaha.. talk about irony, I was trying to find the link of sound card comparisons, and when I found it, I realized it was the same site that you worked on Locutus and posted on Quest.... 🤣
Why not post it up again? 😀
Dell Optiplex Gxpro: Built solely so I could re-live my SB16 days properly with newly acquired sound pieces: MT-32, SCB-55, and DB50xg 😀
Ok, just for the record. Here we go:
http://dos.skillreactor.org/soundcards/
Listen to Descent played by DB50XG and die. :-)
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I actually prefer opl FM synthesis of the soundblaster over db50xg midi in descent. Not too sure about descent 2 though, as I don't play it that much.
descent's midi was good in opl3, but in descent 2 i always preferred the redbook score
