First post, by rkurbatov
It's very hard now to get all types of external MIDI synths that were used for gaming and listening to the music. The major ones are Roland MT-32 family, Roland SC-55/88 family and Yamaha XG family. But seems like we have emulators for all of them. Munt covers MT-32, Roland VA is a perfect solution for SC family and Yamaha created software XG synths.
Seems like all of them are now available as VSTi synthesizers that can be enabled as default system synths. But I would like to have a separate device that I can connect to my retro builds via MIDI cable.
I'm thinking about something really small, like Intel NUC with USB to MIDI adapter attached. It's really tiny and 2-core Celeron on Windows 7 should be enough for both Munt and Yamaha as I understand, but I'm not sure about latest Roland solution.
Also, Roland VA requires x64 vst host while Munt and Yamaha are 32 bit solutions. And it would be really nice to have some programmatical solution to switch synthesizers without the need to attach the display.
Has anybody tried something like this? At least 'marrying' and switching between several types of synths with external input?
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