5u3: care to go into details, or has this been covered elsewhere? There's alot of stuff I have been wondering about ever since I got my AWE32 back in the days :) I always thought the 'aliasing issue' (the high-pitched whining) came from the OPL3 emulation running at a different speed than the …

[QUOTE=NewRisingSun]If yes, and if FM doesn't work if you don't run the utility that way, the OPL3 sound is NOT native OPL3. The real Yamaha OPL3 chip doesn't need to be "woken up" with AWEUTIL.[/QUOTE] AFAIK, the AWEUTIL does not emulate OPL or set up the EMU8000 to emulate it. It merly turns on …