I'm building a PC to play games from around 1988-1995 and was planning to track down an MT-32 and an SC-55, but a friend has a Roland V-drums kit with a TD-12 module, and I was wondering if it would achieve the same thing (at least same as the SC).
Has anybody ever tried this?
That would be interesting.. I also own a Roland e-kit, the basic TD-1K, so I'm interested if this works. However, not to be a bummer, but I don't think there are instruments other than drums in the module, at least on mine.
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At first I thought it would be a silly idea but then I got curious and looked for info about this TD-12 module. I can't see it being listed as General Midi compatible, but OTOH it seems it contains the whole 128-tone GM Soundset. Sequencer says it's only 6-part though so I'm not sure it would respond to the 16 channels at once.
https://www.roland.com/uk/support/by_product/ … f-6eb8498fe545/
wrote:At first I thought it would be a silly idea but then I got curious and looked for info about this TD-12 module. I can't see it being listed as General Midi compatible, but OTOH it seems it contains the whole 128-tone GM Soundset. Sequencer says it's only 6-part though so I'm not sure it would respond to the 16 channels at once.
https://www.roland.com/uk/support/by_product/ … f-6eb8498fe545/
Very interesting indeed. Mine is the cheap basic entry kit, so its module only has drum sounds. If this trick can be pulled off, I'll be on the look out for my next upgrade. Thanks for looking into the manual and sharing it 😀
IBM Aptiva 2162 - P55 166 MMX, 32MB, CS4237B + Wavetable, ATI Mach64 2MB / Win98SE
Custom PIII 750, 64MB, SB AWE64, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP / Win98SE
Sony Vaio z505 SuperSlim - PIII 550, 192MB, YMF744, NeoMagic 256AV+ / Win98SE
Yeah TD-12 is kind of intense...has 262 non-drum instruments and it plays full-on General Midi sounding music as background for practice, so I thought maybe it might understand if it got a General Midi signal...may have to wait until the build to just plug it in and see what happens...
