As I thought.

NeoG_ wrote on Today, 06:38:

crusher wrote on Today, 06:14:

Now we need a dual card feature.
One in GUS mode and the other in SB mode for games that support it. That would be the ultimate killer feature.

I have a PicoGUS and SB16 in the same computer, which games can take advantage of it?

In such a configuration, games would basically just use the GUS as a generic General MIDI device, which would not have any added value over SB16 + General MIDI over MPU-401, which is a combination that I believe a single PicoGUS can also already emulate.

I guess there's the aspect of nostalgia for the specific way how the GUS patches/instruments sounded for General MIDI music playback, compared to Roland Sound Canvas and such. But TiMidity supports GUS patches. Can't PicoGUS use TiMidity for emulating General MIDI playback over MPU-401?

digger wrote on Today, 10:34:

In such a configuration, games would basically just use the GUS as a generic General MIDI device, which would not have any added value over SB16 + General MIDI over MPU-401, which is a combination that I believe a single PicoGUS can also already emulate.

I guess there's the aspect of nostalgia for the specific way how the GUS patches/instruments sounded for General MIDI music playback, compared to Roland Sound Canvas and such. But TiMidity supports GUS patches. Can't PicoGUS use TiMidity for emulating General MIDI playback over MPU-401?

With MPU-401 the game can only tell the device which patches to use. With GUS it can actually use custom samples.

jmarsh wrote on Today, 11:01:

With MPU-401 the game can only tell the device which patches to use. With GUS it can actually use custom samples.

Yes, but do you know of any games where you'd use an SB16 for PCM audio and a GUS for MIDI output, yet the game would use custom samples or patches?

I reckon there wouldn't be that many, if any at all.

I'm genuinely curious if there are any though, so if anybody can mention some examples, that would be really interesting.