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Re: Terratec EWS64XL MIDI routing

Posted on 2014-08-09, 10:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, in that case the MIDI-2 interface may have been disabled in the EEPROM settings. You should open the DOS config tool (called ews64cfg.exe if I recall correctly) and assign an I/O port address to the MIDI-2 interface (and optionally an IRQ if you want to use the MIDI-IN as well). After saving the …

Re: Terratec EWS64XL MIDI routing

Posted on 2014-08-09, 09:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try setting it to MIDI-2 😉

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-06, 21:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I received a Korg NS5R a couple of days ago. It was on my wishlist for quite some time, so I'm really happy to have one now. :happy: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/Lennart90/Retro%20computers/IMG_20140606_212450.jpg I haven't found the time yet to use it extensively, but so far I'm quite …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-01-21, 11:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been at the scrapyard today, saved this from the gold scrap bin! http://imageshack.com/a/img163/4775/l5ya.jpg Some socket 4 board. Some very nice finds there! FYI, this motherboard is an early original Intel motherboard for the first Pentiums with Socket 4. If I remember correctly there are two …

Re: DOS/win utilities to get the most out of MIDI hardware?

Posted on 2013-10-02, 20:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lennart , is it possible to extract the SysEx data from the "DB-50XG -> MT-32 emulation" midi? I am attaching the file here... btw how do you do it? is there a sequencer or something that gives the option to extract/save SysEx data? TIA! :blush: Switching the DB50XG (or SC-55 for that matter) to MT …

Re: DOS/win utilities to get the most out of MIDI hardware?

Posted on 2013-10-01, 08:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sure, here you go! 😀

Re: DOS/win utilities to get the most out of MIDI hardware?

Posted on 2013-08-26, 12:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Many thanks for sharing! I'd never heard of GS-Panel, but it looks like a very handy utility. One of my favourites concerning 100% Roland MPU-401 compatibles is mputhru by NewRisingSUn. It allows you to send some MPU commands to the MPU from the command-line, which alter the way in which System …

Re: Anyone have a real MPU-401 or MPU-IPC spare?

Posted on 2013-08-18, 13:42

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

From what I've been able to find on the internet, it seems that the MM-401 doesn't use Roland's code. There's this old site which mentions: "The ROM instruction set on the card wasn't copied; it was designed from the ground up by some very capable and determined programming engineers". Furthermore, …

Re: Possible project: preserve/replicate our hardware!

Posted on 2013-04-26, 17:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's definitely an interesting idea and I've also been thinking about doing something similar. Rather than cloning an existing design, I'd look at a more modern approach using an Atmel AVR 8-bit microcontroller (same family of microprocessors as the ones on the Arduino boards) in conjunction with …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-04-12, 09:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And this came up for 15 bucks which seemed like a good deal. It’s a Thurstmaster F-16 FCS with throttle and all of the relevant docos, drivers, and adaptors. It even includes the game card which has a little dial for adjusting the speed on newer PC’s. It’s all in great condition and will be good …

Re: Recommend a ViRGE/VX video card?

Posted on 2013-03-14, 08:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As you intend to use the card in conjunction with your VFX1 helmet, I'd avoid VRAM-based cards and stick with DRAM for compatibility reasons. The FAQs on the internet suggest that VRAM has some compatibility problems with the VFX1. I can confirm that the Diamond Stealth 3000 gave strange problems …

Re: Is Terratec EWS64XL worth the buy?

Posted on 2012-12-29, 00:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm somewhat surprised by some of the earlier comments, as the EWS64XL is a terrific card and certainly worth considering for that price. In fact, if I would be restricted to a single ISA sound card, I'd choose this one without any doubt. It has a lot going for it: - Clean analog audio output, no …

Re: Questions about the synth on the Turtle Beach Multisound Classic

Posted on 2012-12-20, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think you're mixing up a couple of definitions. Intelligent mode refers to an operating mode of the Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface, which is a standard for interfacing computers with MIDI sound modules. Many sound cards that claim to be MPU-401 compatible don't implement this mode, only "dumb" UART …

Re: Questions about the synth on the Turtle Beach Multisound Classic

Posted on 2012-12-20, 16:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The DSP used on the TB Multisound Classic is exactly the same as the one on the Creative WaveBlaster I. However, it has different ROM samples (the ones from the Proteus), so it does sound different from the WaveBlaster I. Also keep in mind that it is not GM-compatible, so if your only goal is to use …

Re: Modern sound card with waveblaster header?

Posted on 2012-08-05, 17:10

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I've never tried running it on Vista or Windows 7 64-bit editions, but apparently there is a suitable 64-bit driver available for the Terratec DMX6Fire 24/96. The card uses a VIA Envy24 chip and comes with a very nice front module, which provides lots of connections and is installed in a free 5.25" …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-07-30, 15:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FINALLY!!! A preview of things to come. :) http://www.zoelch.de/ebay/susi/enso1.jpg http://www.zoelch.de/ebay/susi/enso4.jpg It's definitely a nice card, I'll give you that, but don't you think that spending more than €300 on this thing isn't a little bit excessive? :wink: By combining a good ISA …

Re: What does an Ad Lib sound card sound like?

Posted on 2011-09-05, 20:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

all right man, since it come with 240 sound presets(instruments), just not in the order of GENERAL MIDI, can i just rearrange the order of presets to play in GM mode? I don't think it is feasible, because the FB-01 differs more from the GM standard than the MT-32. And even the MT-32 isn't exactly …

Re: What does an Ad Lib sound card sound like?

Posted on 2011-09-04, 15:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i have bid a yamaha FB-01 sound module(still on the way), its based on OPP chip, how does it sound compare to adlib? Technically it's much more advanced than an OPL2, but unfortunately it's rarely supported by games. And the soundtracks of the handful of games that *do* support it were usually …

Re: Kurzweil MIDI on Turtle Beach cards

Posted on 2011-08-03, 20:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you for the picture. Both the Rockwell chip and the ROM chip marked "GMROM2MB" are exactly the same as the ones used by the Kurzweil HOMAC. However, the HOMAC has another Rockwell chip and a RAM chip in addition. It appears that they omitted those chips from the Malibu Surround 64, although …

Re: Kurzweil MIDI on Turtle Beach cards

Posted on 2011-08-02, 17:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you certain that the Turtle Beach Malibu Surround 64 has a Kurzweil synthesizer? It seems that there is not much information available about the TB Malibu Surround 64, but I found this text in the knowledge base on the TB website: "The Malibu Surround 64 is the latest ISA soundcard designed by …

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