ZipoBibrok wrote:Ok. Terratec EWS64 cards used Dream chips, and they had a free bank editor (Ed!son) available. Do Dream's current terms for some bizarre reason prohibit providing something like that to end user?
ZipoBibrok wrote:
Traces from SIMM socket clearly go into SAM9407 chip. There isn't anything else on the card that could function as a synthesizer, and it absolutely isn't a soft synth.
Yes of course but this is a completely different question : Also the Terratec uses (an older incompatible version of) dream bank structure, not sf2 banks directly.
This was one of the possibilities for a conversion path (I tried with some old Guillemot instrument source files, which are also dream based,
but could not make it work. But if you have the sources of interesting Terratec banks (instruments = .94i and .98i files, banks = .94l files of .98l files), and permission to use these,
I could do another attempt at importing and compiling for X2. (Already compiled banks are specific for a certain chip / flash type / memory organisation and cannot be decompiled.)
Using DLSRead there is a route to convert from DLS to .94u and .94l, so DLS files are also good candidates for the legacy path...
The new dream bank editor + bank compiler may only be used with purchase of the Dream 5000 SDK, and intended for pro sounds developers.
It contains a lot of IP from dream, including encryption features and sample protection. The market is quite different from 25 years ago.
These days, you can think of electric pianos , organs.... using their chips with copyrighted samples, with a license per unit..
so I can understand their position they wish to protect this. The device direct editing features, bank compiler, editor, ... are not available for integration in my own products (I asked few years ago).
The IP is not for sale, and would not be supported by dream. Also for this I can understand their position.
What is allowed (and I implemented), is the upload of binary banks, as X2 supports.
Due to the fact that the sf2 banks are way more common anyway, we mainly focus on being able to convert these. It was not a smooth ride so far..
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