That one Yamaha is so lost between all the Rolands 🤣

Unfortunately D110 isn't quite useful for MT32 games, the samples and instrument presets are all completely different even though actual sound chips are the same..

Regardless, there's a lot of good sound to be had from this ~

Tiido wrote on 2026-04-13, 06:29:

That one Yamaha is so lost between all the Rolands 🤣

Unfortunately D110 isn't quite useful for MT32 games, the samples and instrument presets are all completely different even though actual sound chips are the same..

Regardless, there's a lot of good sound to be had from this ~

Haha, I know it's mainly a video game forum, but I thought the mention of Ubuntu Studio and Controllers was a good hint. 😉

I use the MU for some retrogaming, but otherwise this is basically all for recording. The SC-D70's there to give the "rough vibe" of the entire Sound Canvas series, the MU the "rough vibe" of the entire MU series, the D-110 the "rough vibe" of the MT32 and the SD-20 the "rough vibe" of a Touhou SD-80. None of them are remotely close except the MU, but they were cheap and well spec'd for my goals. And I'm here, because I'd put solid money that in the 2020's Vogons are the collective expert on all these things more than say - a synth forum. 😉

Which isn't to say I'm not going to have a crack at full retro-mode Monkey Island, but Munt is plenty for that for me. I'm not that fussy. The MU plays Final Fantasy VII and VIII with the correct music at last, and that's enough for me. 😁

And yes, that poor Yamaha. I need a Korg to break it up a little, or maybe swap the MU-50 for an MU-2000 so it looks a little less diminutive under the SC-D70. And then swap the SD-20 for a real SD-80, and get an XV-5050 and a...

InTheStudy wrote on 2026-04-13, 08:06:

And yes, that poor Yamaha. I need a Korg to break it up a little, or maybe swap the MU-50 for an MU-2000 so it looks a little less diminutive under the SC-D70. And then swap the SD-20 for a real SD-80, and get an XV-5050 and a...

So far, I've managed to avoid buying any more synths. Got a stack of MIDI cables, RCA cables, and JACK-RCA cables on the way, and looking to pick up one last Alpha; which should lead to this ridiculous diagram:

A MTT hub has also been added to fix USB performance limitations. I've just had a couple of odd pipewire crashes while monitoring the UA-100 though, so I'll have to keep an eye on that. I think it might be related to sample-rate conversion, as everything else is at 48kHz. If it turns out to be something fatal, I'll replace it with a QUAD-CAPTURE (About £40, so twice the cost of the Alphas, but it would be a nicer interface for guitar/mic), and move the guitar/mic Alpha to capture the D-110. Meanwhile, I've forked ua100mix into "Roland UA-100 Mixer" with some patches to make it work on Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS, which I've installed on my gaming PC. It's amazing how much better Guitarix works with 4c8t Skylake and 16GB of ECC DDR4, instead of whatever is on a Pi 5. Edisyn is working too, but since I don't have the cables yet I can't try it on the actual hardware.

So far no vogon-level retrogaming, but I have been playing through Pharoah and Metal Fatigue via bottles. I am astoundingly terrible at strategy games. Here's hoping the new GoG Galaxy for Linux client that's coming will embed Proton in the same way Steam does, so I can be lazier about my game installs. Still, at basically no further cost beyond what I paid to buy (and undetonate) the synths and inside of 2 weeks, I should have my completed studio. Song writing goes well, and I've mostly unburied my MIDI controllers; which spent 2 years as a shelving unit after the tragic death of the SC-D70.