zaphod77 wrote on Today, 20:26:

Very interesting. the syxg70 that came with ff7 was the 2 mb version as near as I can tell, and it sounds significantly differen […]
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Very interesting. the syxg70 that came with ff7 was the 2 mb version as near as I can tell, and it sounds significantly different. you are correct that it does NOT do the bad sound. i found a video reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSkuTPRanuk

however, did you test the wdm driver with the 4 meg bank, or was it with the 2 meg? because your sample sure sounds like the 2 meg bank.

There are two versions of the wdm driver from microsoft, the 2 meg and the 4 meg.

I also have distinct memories of phaze1.mid playing back differently on the sy70xg compared to everything else, with the intro wacky wave having a lot more portamento all over the place, where there's nearly none on everything els ei tried it.

It's the 4MB version and both the VSTi and WDM driver version's output frequency were set to 44100 Hz so it can be considered an 'apple to apple' comparison.

Well, this confirms the fault in the vsti itself, then. Which needs to be resolved by decompiling it, and then fixing the bug.

I've heard many rumors of other bugs, and the rom swap confirms that ones still exists unrelated to the changed samples.

My current theory is that the vsti is taking a few shortcuts to improve performance with low latency. these shortcuts are not present in the other synths, which have considerably more latency..