great topic, i also have a CT3600 and was wondering the same Trying to look this stuff up just the other night..
ElBrunzy wrote:must be a design problem or a pinout limitation if they didnt make the emu8k available thru midi port on sb32, what do you think ?
im pretty sure i have played the emu8k synthesizer from a midi interface using cubase 1.0 on windows 3.11 earlier this year...
i think its not accessible unless u have the proper install cd tho? maybe thats why u thought that? my card is sitting here on the desk not installed atm but u are making em want to plug it in and test this out now..
gdjacobs wrote:Waveblaster was a standard header. Lots of companies built daughterboards for it.
http://members.home.nl/c.kersten/
cool link.. interesting info.
i think its safe to assume that the name "waveBlaster" was just creatives marketing department's idea to name the connection to which the wavetable boards attach
correct me if im wrong but my understanding of the wavetable daughterboards is that you could easily think of them the same as purchasing any "Sample Library" of pre-made + pre-mapped configuration of sounds
the same as for a sampler : a samplecd or for an instrument: a preset card.
swapping the card instantly "reloads" you with a different color pallette to work with. allowing the companies to work on refining the soundset to provide a higher quality and of course capitalizing off setlling all the different cards! 🤣
really the wavetable soundsets are no different from the GS standard soundset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_GS is just a standardized sound set / preset instrument mappings
isnt there somewavetable cards that claim to be "GS" or "GM" ?
i think that GM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI came a tiny bit before GS and it was the original attempt at a redefinition of the original standard spec
set out by the MIDI 1.0 specification http://oktopus.hu/uploaded/Tudastar/MIDI%201. … ecification.pdf
this document isn the original 1.0 but rather an revision this page here shows that the original spec was devised in 1982!!
the mt-32 being from 1987 of course came in the middle of all that AFTER this original midi 1.0 spec + BEFORE the General MIDI spec
and providing the popular LA type synthesis of the 80s to the video game world.
kamerat: who cares really about opl3 when you have emu8000..
well thats comparing sounds from 1988 to sounds from 1994.. 6 year difference
really the interpreted quality of playback would depend more so on whether or not u are listening to the musical composition (midi file) on the original platform that it was designed/composed on
so that you are hearing an accurate representation of what the original composer intedended for that game or midi file.. i think that is always going to be the deciding factor of "perceived quality"
this page is a great visualization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MIDI_standards
shows that GS was basically Rolands edited + customized version of GM.. which was made by the midi manufacturers group/comittee http://www.midi.org/aboutus/aboutmma.php
but im not saying im an expert im sure alot of people lurking on this site are alot more well educated.. 😁
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