Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-25, 14:51

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by sndwv

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I sent an e-mail to George Sanger (the actual Fat Man) to ask about the T7G MIDI situation. He confirmed that the music was originally composed for SC-55 and the official soundtrack was recorded using a SC-55 Mk. II with help from the community. He was also quick to point out the problem with the …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-24, 22:21

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by sndwv

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I tried your Midi Player, which reproduced the same behavior as SAVIHost (wrong drums). Enabling CTF as you described did indeed work, and the music then plays with the correct drums, which looks to be STANDARD and not ORCHESTRA. I was thinking, I am constantly comparing this to my current, real SC …

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Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 10:59

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Yes, wanted to remove it proactively, but was wondering if I should try to source a replacement cell because 'something' needs to be there for continuity, or if I could just as well leave it off.

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Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2024-01-20, 12:07

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Does anyone know if it is possible to desolder the internal (three pinned) battery of a PMA-5 and just leave it at that, if intended use is just as a MIDI module? Or does a battery or connection need to be present on the board?

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-20, 07:20

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That said, for this specific one at least I doubt it's the sequence. I am now using ScummVM for further testing, and I am jumping straight from the frontend to a savegame in the foyer, with no other tracks playing in between. The 'loading GM drivers' screen is still shown before though. And have …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-20, 06:57

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Actually if the already selected rhythm part is the same as before then selecting the same part again does the same as selecting the default 'Standard 1' drum set (the same way as I had shown in the video). The only difference is that the way you do this triggers a user interface bug and the actual …

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Re: Possible to add line-in to laptop or mini-PC's internal sound card?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 15:59

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If it doesn't have one then it would entirely depend on if the motherboard originally had support for one and its simply not populated. If it never had support or never had an unpopulated place for one then I doubt its possible to do as you ask. If you can get a spec sheet for the motherboard then …

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Re: Possible to add line-in to laptop or mini-PC's internal sound card?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 15:45

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An alternative nightmarish scenario I could think of is doing the mixing externally and routing the combined audio to the internal speakers of a PC monitor, but in my scenario that would entail routing the line-outs of both the MIDI module and the PC to an external mixer and combining the output of …

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Re: Possible to add line-in to laptop or mini-PC's internal sound card?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 15:37

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Is it possible to add a line-in port to a laptop or mini-PC that doesn't have one, while maintaining the ability to mix it's audio with the audio of the internal sound card? As I understand it, all line-in-to-usb 'adapters' are actually external sound cards, which in Windows requires switching to, …

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Possible to add line-in to laptop or mini-PC's internal sound card?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 15:20

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Is it possible to add a line-in port to a laptop or mini-PC that doesn't have one, while maintaining the ability to mix it's audio with the audio of the internal sound card? As I understand it, all line-in-to-usb 'adapters' are actually external sound cards, which in Windows requires switching to, …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 02:07

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There are HDMI audio injectors https://www.jaycar.com.au/hdmi-stereo-audio-inserter/p/AC1636 You would just need one with audio inputs for both sources. Or a little passive mixer. The birds nest of devices grows... Haha, yeah, this is escalating quickly... The main problem here is missing decent …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 00:49

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Another aspect I haven't really thought through: how to hook everything up. I have: - Let's say a MIDI module with line-out. - A MFF PC with built-in speakers, but only a headset port 'in', and line-out. - A monitor with built-in speakers and only hdmi in. Is there a way to use a headset port for …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-18, 22:09

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The setting I have to 'set to what it already was set to' to hackily fix the issue is this one: Actually if the already selected rhythm part is the same as before then selecting the same part again does the same as selecting the default 'Standard 1' drum set (the same way as I had shown in the …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-18, 18:49

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Adding to Philscomputerlab post using SAVIHost to use the SC-VA plugin; To force SC-55 map in dosbox, start the SAVIHost SC-VA plugin and click on the PlugIn tab, click Filters, mark SysEx. Go into "Control Changes" by pressing the "..." button near it, select 000 and 032 (use ctrl), press OK, mark …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 16:25

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The SC-8820 is small and lightweight, so it fits your basic requirements, but the Dreamblaster x16GS in an external CHILL casing would give you the most quality and portability. For "checks all the boxes", the best choice would be a first-version X2GS in the matching shell-case. Thanks, I'll check …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 16:05

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For your particular setup, a good choice would be one of the old portable Edirol (Roland subsidiary) Studio Canvas modules or one of the portable Yamaha XG modules, both of which are still readily available for purchase on eBay and other such sites. Is there a specific or example module you'd be …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 14:23

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For your particular setup, a good choice would be one of the old portable Edirol (Roland subsidiary) Studio Canvas modules or one of the portable Yamaha XG modules, both of which are still readily available for purchase on eBay and other such sites. Is there a specific or example module you'd be …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 14:15

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Yeah there's a soundcanvas munt equivalent emulator out there but its still being worked on and it'll probably be a while before it works seamlessly. Once its done chances are someone will probably make a pi-hat type device for it. Yes, I've been watching that project. Would simplify things a lot!

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 13:11

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There’s a portable Sound Canvas. The SCP-55. Requires drivers and a PCMCIA slot. Oh, that's really cool. Didn't know these existed. If not for this build I might dig up an old laptop for one. They are rare though, it seems. - As far as I can tell SFF Optiplexes don't have PCMCIA slots or headers. - …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 13:07

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Dreamblaster X2GS would be good enough for most people. Yeah, I've been looking at those, but I don't really understand what I'm looking at- are these daughter boards to a (specific) host card? Or can they connect as an external device? And as for the Roland sounds, are these similar to a soundfont …

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