First post, by mtest001
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Hi all,
I am still pretty new to the retro computing world and lately I realized that the music of most DOS game I knew was NOT actually what the artists had created, because in the old days I was listening to it through my good old Sound Blaster Pro II and later SB16 Value.
It's only recently that I discovered that these artists were composing and working with totally different hardware such as the well known Roland MT32 and SC55. And after educating myself via Youtube first to compare the sound, after playing with MUNT to end up buying my own SC55-ST, man now I can tell those little Roland boxes make a huge difference !
Now, as far as I remember no-one around me back then had such kind of hardware. Never seen one in any LAN party I went to. I knew some sound cards were better than others and a good friend of mine who was (and still is a pretty successful) musician kept praising his GUS. So in (my) reality only a very tinny minority of players could listen to the music exactly as the artist wanted it to sound like.
Hence my question: do you remember any artist complaining about that ? This must have been pretty frustrating for them to know that all the hard work and passion they put in their creations would go down the drain of a poor quality MIDI emulation...
/me love my P200MMX@225 Mhz + Voodoo Banshee + SB Live! + Sound Canvas SC-55ST = unlimited joy !