Good timing, I was just about to send you a PM.

Have an ESS 1868F that is hanging out for an E-Wave. 😁

Production batch of E-Wave ready and fully available now at https://www.serdashop.com/EWave

Got final place for E-Wave 😉

That is such an uncanny motherboard underneath.. Artwork by ??

Yeah its Siemens PCD 5H from 1994 with Pentium 60 CPU, one of the early Pentium Machines.
Yes it has Hidden Artwork on the Mainboard 😉

A few more demos of E-Wave :
Descent - Level 1 : https://youtu.be/4Z36Tix2z6g
Sam and Max - The Scene Of The Crime : https://youtu.be/0ZW7eEGl5bA

Hello sir,

I received my e-wave recently and I am enjoying it very much. Thank you.

mockingbird wrote on 2022-01-03, 17:26:

Hello sir,
I received my e-wave recently and I am enjoying it very much. Thank you.

Heart warming to hear, thanks!
Here are some more E-Wave demos :
Tie Fighter - Title Theme : https://youtu.be/8R05vd-P_b4
NCAA Road To The Final Four 2 - Menu Theme : https://youtu.be/9CWzFzEJnyA

A few more demos :

War Craft 2 - Orc Theme : https://youtu.be/w6xreQ7G7dI
Princess Maker 2 - Thanks : https://youtu.be/F5PWQUvnGGc
Sid & Al's incredible toons - Introducing Sid and Al : https://youtu.be/_lj4OZ2-OVQ

Also made a demonstration video about the E-Wave daughterboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9akzHFHPyw

Salient wrote on 2022-02-27, 08:19:

Also made a demonstration video about the E-Wave daughterboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9akzHFHPyw

Nice. Subscribed to your channel and bookmarked your website. Especially those articles (PDFs) of Computer!Totaal are a blast from the past.

what this is compatible with what type of MIDI?

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-02-27, 17:23:

what this is compatible with what type of MIDI?

Cheers,

General MIDI Level 1, so basic MIDI used in old games.

So that's similar to MT32?

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-02-27, 18:54:

So that's similar to MT32?

Cheers,

No. MT-32 is not General MIDI. MT-32 uses Roland's proprietary MIDI format design and came before General MIDI.

Thank you,

In order to play early games that uses MIDI, what is my options with current wavetable daughterboards that dreamblaster designed? Except for the McCake as it needs MT32 firmware which is extra expense to purchase.

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-02-27, 22:34:

In order to play early games that uses MIDI, what is my options with current wavetable daughterboards that dreamblaster designed? Except for the McCake as it needs MT32 firmware which is extra expense to purchase.

The MT32 is a highly configurable sample-based synthesizer. Early games with more advanced MT32 output used the flexibility and programmed their own instruments based on the samples that are available inside the MT32. Those games will not sound correct unless the configuration is correctly interpreted. Up to now, that is only possible by using the original firmware (including the original samples), which is either expensive or illegal.

On the other hand, the MT32 came with 128 pre-configured instruments. If a game is only using these pre-configured instruments, a "MT32 soundbank" for a programmable synthesizer, or a synthesizer switchable to a "MT32 emulation mode" is likely good enough (there is a convention to have the MT32 default instruments on MIDI bank 127, possibly it's part of GS, thus it's a common way to enable MT32 emulation by sending a "switch to bank 127" command to an advanced MIDI synthesize). As the X2 has software-loadable sound banks, I'm very confident you can configure it to play back the default MT32 instruments, which will be good enough for a lot of MT32 games.

E-Wave review by Phils computerlab : https://youtu.be/lEo2o0cl3tM

Super Street Fighter 2 on E-Wave.
E-Wave has some really strong bass. Fun match for sub-woofer users.
https://youtu.be/Vu4M5g_3CXg

I don't have a sub and I could feel that bass. That chip gives a rich, old-school arcade sound with the clear, digital quality of today's audio equipment.