VOGONS

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Spinning off from "Alive Synth" since it's full of bitterness and regret, here's the upgraded recording studio rack; also known as "if you designed a 2003 studio in 2023".

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Repaired Sound Canvas, rebatteried MU, SD-20 that only lights up if you plug it into Linux, and the D110 to give me those MT32 vibes without the price tag. Which I accidentally bought and collected in one day. Whoops. Need to take that apart to replace the battery tomorrow once B&M is open.

Then a UA100, one (soon to be three) Lexicon Alpha's and a (soon to be) cubilux SPDIF capture card for the audio side.

Controllers are an MPD32, "The Laboratory", VMK61+ and GI-10. If I ever find my Launchpad Mini I'll stick that in too.

Recording PC is a Pi 5 8GB running Ubuntu Studio 25.04 off NVMe, which I'm going to image to 26.04 once that's out. Pipewire is stable, it'll have the NUMA patches and it has a 5 year lifecycle. That should do nicely. So apart from those two extra budget interfaces and a USB hub, this pile is done!

I've found Edisyn for the D-110, UA100Mix for that thing, the fun challenge will be XGEDit, SD-20 Editor and GSAE4. I've not tried Wine on a Pi yet... but I'm excited by the opportunities that it presents!

Can anyone recommend any other software that is good for editing patches and controlling any of these cool toys? I'm impressed by MidiQuest, but it's... not in budget.

Reply 1 of 2, by Tiido

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That one Yamaha is so lost between all the Rolands 🤣

Unfortunately D110 isn't quite useful for MT32 games, the samples and instrument presets are all completely different even though actual sound chips are the same..

Regardless, there's a lot of good sound to be had from this ~

T-04YBSC, a new YMF71x based sound card & Official VOGONS thread about it
Newly made 4MB 60ns 30pin SIMMs ~
mida sa loed ? nagunii aru ei saa 😜

Reply 2 of 2, by InTheStudy

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Tiido wrote on Today, 06:29:

That one Yamaha is so lost between all the Rolands 🤣

Unfortunately D110 isn't quite useful for MT32 games, the samples and instrument presets are all completely different even though actual sound chips are the same..

Regardless, there's a lot of good sound to be had from this ~

Haha, I know it's mainly a video game forum, but I thought the mention of Ubuntu Studio and Controllers was a good hint. 😉

I use the MU for some retrogaming, but otherwise this is basically all for recording. The SC-D70's there to give the "rough vibe" of the entire Sound Canvas series, the MU the "rough vibe" of the entire MU series, the D-110 the "rough vibe" of the MT32 and the SD-20 the "rough vibe" of a Touhou SD-80. None of them are remotely close except the MU, but they were cheap and well spec'd for my goals. And I'm here, because I'd put solid money that in the 2020's Vogons are the collective expert on all these things more than say - a synth forum. 😉

Which isn't to say I'm not going to have a crack at full retro-mode Monkey Island, but Munt is plenty for that for me. I'm not that fussy. The MU plays Final Fantasy VII and VIII with the correct music at last, and that's enough for me. 😁

And yes, that poor Yamaha. I need a Korg to break it up a little, or maybe swap the MU-50 for an MU-2000 so it looks a little less diminutive under the SC-D70. And then swap the SD-20 for a real SD-80, and get an XV-5050 and a...

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