First post, by bestemor
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Well, so I started testing the Roland card I got - but am getting odd(?) results with the daughtercards.
The melody of my test file (Star Trail songs) sounds not at all as I expected. Hard to explain, but some instruments sound louder, I hear instruments I don't think I've heard before, it's off-key/higher/lower pitch(?), and though I recognize the basic tune(mostly) it's very far from like it used to be... 😒
On the YamahaDB50XG it was kinda like Nirvana playing Beatles or somesuch nonsense....
Inbetween getting some annoying 'com port already in use' messages after re-installing the card (no reason why, same IRQ and DMA, but still... what gives ?) I swapped in a SCC-1, which sounded just fine.
With fine, I mean very similiar to my trusty old Soundblaster AWE64(no Gold), though with 'richer' sound.
Then I tried the SCD-10 and the MonkeyIsland2 theme... hmm, sounded like someone playing a synthesizer on a shooting range (!) They were shooting rythmically('drums'), I'll give'em that, but still.... sigh...
So, I must be doing something very wrong here, or... ?
At least I expected the SCC-1 and the SCD10 to sound somewhat identical...
Not sure what to google on about this, particulary since the SCC-1 is fine.
Tech info:
Win98, P200, Roland all sound taken directly from the MPU's(and SCC-1) R/L RCA ports
(there is a TB Santa Cruz installed, but I've routed all midi to the Roland MPU, I hope...)