Re: Voyetra Sequencer says: "Sound Blaster cannot receive and transmit MIDI simultaneously."

Posted on 2020-12-01, 11:55

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You may need MIDI splitter/multiplier that takes one MIDI input and duplicates it to multiple outputs. A step above there are also MIDI routers that provide control over what goes where, but they also tend to be more expensive.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-21, 20:05

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I am wondering if someone could recommend an ideal PCIE VGA capture card for the purpose of playing games - not capturing/recording them? In other words, retro machine outputs VGA to the capture card, which then turns up in a window (perhaps streamed by VLC) on the modern host machine. I made VCS …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-17, 15:53

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Yeah, we're quite lucky those used professional cards are available at such affordable prices on ebay, while supply hadn't been exhausted yet it's not unlimited either. E2S is just a dual-head full height PCIe card, it is the same as E1S in every other regard. There was a sale of those a year ago at …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2020-11-17, 12:21

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Ah, MT32 emulator via RPi on waveblaster board. Ought to be quite useful considering MT32s continue to rise in price. Even though I have one I still want this one, if only to tinker with it. What's next, CM-500 on WB? Like this with Yucatan FX in one board (and sysex to switch between MT32 and GM …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-25, 13:30

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Yeah, well, that's analog VGA capturing, it was never going to be easy. We are lucky though there are good solutions, like aforementioned Datapath cards. I think I have G450 PCI with DVI as well, though being a recent item I got I haven't been able to give it a good test run yet. In my experience …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-08, 12:45

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You can feed either digital or analog signal to Datapath cards with DVI input, no need for any special cables, just a decent VGA cable and passive converter to DVI-I. Might get confusing if video card has both analog and digital video output through DVI, in which case it will default to digital …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-08-26, 14:17

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Up for one as well, sent a message through contact form as well just in case.

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-08-05, 18:30

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In Windows 9x you get two separate MIDI inputs and two outputs, so it can be connected to SC-88 series A and B inputs for 32 MIDI channels. In DOS second output mirrors first unfortunately.

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-08-05, 17:15

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I did request support for it and tested it as well. There's no TSR at all. Official Roland's tool doesn't do anything other than PnP init either. It does support intelligent mode.

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Re: Article about the history of Creative Labs / interview with its founder/CEO: The Sound Blaster Story

Posted on 2020-02-05, 10:25

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I guess it also explains why MIDI support has always been non-priority in SB cards, at best just a bullet point for marketing blurbs. Given that very few cared about it back in the day as MIDI modules were very expensive. I was "lucky" to have WaveBlaster (first one) with SB16 back at the day, when …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2019-07-22, 12:58

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In that case yeah, it'll cover analog VGA capture for you as long as you don't push resolutions and refresh rate too high for it to handle. Dual-head variant sometimes can be found at same price as single. Be aware there are models with PCI-X interface and some sellers mistakenly label them as plain …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2019-07-14, 14:28

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To summarize this very long and exhaustive thread you basically have two routes: a VGA-HDMI converter/scaler paired with a generic HDMI capture card, or not-so-cheap pro capture cards from vendors like DataPath and Epiphan. Hi, so if I buy the following: "Datapath DGC103C Vision RGB-PRO1" I will be …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2019-06-16, 15:20

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Modern game capture devices are geared towards 16:9 resolutions, typically 720p, 1080p and few high-ends supporting 4k. Neither 4:3 nor 5:4 are common enough anymore to be supported. Less so any going above 60Hz. Lastly most are only going to have HDMI input, and while you haven't specified type of …

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Re: Pure DOS gaming system with 100% digital audio output

Posted on 2019-03-19, 14:10

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Oooh shiney! I also dig the name, fits nicely. What connector will be used for SPDIF: coaxial or optical (toslink)?

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2019-03-19, 11:29

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That's a dual VGA input VisionRGB-PRO. Good if you have PCI slot and driver support is up to Windows 7. Got one of those too but alas no recent mobo with PCI port to plug it into to test. There might be resolution detection difference between this one and Ex series.

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Re: Not quite vintage - Any idea what audio software this guy uses?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 10:04

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He's using native instruments massive software synth with effects and NI software stack in general. Sometime ago suggested him to use real 486 as sequencer in live performance, he seem wants too but not sure what came out of that.

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Re: New Quad OPL3 Hybrid FM / Analogue synth build

Posted on 2018-09-05, 13:08

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Neat, a hybrid FM/SA synth, would love something like that!

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Re: FMonster, the monster of FM synth

Posted on 2018-07-17, 22:07

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Oh my. How many BungholioMarks(tm) will it score? Obvious joke aside I kinda wonder about having both OPL2 and OPL3 on same board, unless some pins/switches to put them on different addresses.

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Re: DVI/DOS problem

Posted on 2018-06-13, 20:09

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DVI is hit and miss in those early cards, some of which were produced before spec was finalized and technically did not conform to it resulting in unexpected and quirky behavior. I have a few cards like that and it's kinda fascinating to me, but for practical purposes there aren't that many cards …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-06-01, 17:14

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Should have mentioned iMac as host capture system, that would have narrowed choice to very few options. But yeah, in general capture hardware fit for this niche task is very limited and most are very expensive, unless you find it second-hand at a reasonable price. A vast majority of modern capture …

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