what is this? wavetable month? 🤣
looking forward to it!

aww, cute :3

What's the differences? Is it higher quality wavetable rom?

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2020-10-01, 20:31:

What's the differences? Is it higher quality wavetable rom?

Cheers,

I added the specs.

ES692 datasheet link, for the information of viewers :

https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download … %2520Audiodrive

A sample of the chip's GM sound on Youtube, using HUMAN2GM.MID from Warcraft 2 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJnRtfO9s48

It's amazing what chips like these can do on a limited budget and with limited sample storage space. Not as full-sounding as the big boys (Roland/Yamaha devices with 2MB+ sets), I think many would agree (?), but most PC gamers would still have killed for this standard in the 90s. It'll be up there with my 1MB OPL4 in quality-of-experience terms, in fact a specific comparison between those two would be interesting.

Shreddoc wrote on 2020-10-01, 20:52:

It's amazing what chips like these can do on a limited budget and with limited sample storage space. Not as full-sounding as the big boys (Roland/Yamaha devices with 2MB+ sets), I think many would agree (?), but most PC gamers would still have killed for this standard in the 90s. It'll be up there with my 1MB OPL4 in quality-of-experience terms, in fact a specific comparison between those two would be interesting.

I second this. I have one ES689 card and it's amazing how much I can enjoy out of this simple noname card.

You can have a listen to it as BoxPressed made some ES692 samples in here: Re: My Wavetable Sample Thread
It's the same chip as the wavetable on the Compaq Business Wavetable card.

I've got the same in a Clevo pentium MMX laptop, sounds pretty great. The nice form factor of this new card has me tempted though

First E-wave prototype.. it does not work yet... debugging...
If I can solve it, first batch may be available in 1-2 months.

I want one!

Nice, i`m eager to see it working!

Kudos!

I'm currently in search of 2MB ES982 to dump it and flash the soundbank to standard EEPROM. Could be an interesting base for a successor of this board.

Paar wrote on 2020-11-15, 17:57:

I'm currently in search of 2MB ES982 to dump it and flash the soundbank to standard EEPROM. Could be an interesting base for a successor of this board.

yes !

New revision, first sounds out of it.
--> Descent Level 1

I like it - nice one again dreamblaster!
ofcouse people need to take into account this was a a budget chip and not a roland/yamaha one

More wavetable cards, more better!

Really crisp and punchy percussion. My ears love it. I think I'll be buying this.

Sounds great to my ears too - I prefer these budget wavetable options over the real deal Roland or Yamaha options; budget clones 4 life 👍

Somehow I seem to prefer this to the sound of YucatanFX. I'll have to get one when it is released 😀