the dream gs bank is nice but i'm pretty sure it wont' play back GS techno correctly.

I'm hoping a reasonable substitute for an SCB-55 or db50xg gets made. would be nice. I know this board is powered by a pi. i lowkey wonder if a pi could actually somehow run s-yxg50, or a native port of it.

digger wrote on 2026-10-05, 21:57:

Cool little device. 🙂 Congrats on bringing this to production.

Are there any plans for adding support for L/A synthesis to it, specifically emulation support for the Roland MT-32 and CM-32? Perhaps by porting Munt to it?

zaphod77 wrote on 2026-10-12, 00:57:

the dream gs bank is nice but i'm pretty sure it wont' play back GS techno correctly.

I'm hoping a reasonable substitute for an SCB-55 or db50xg gets made. would be nice. I know this board is powered by a pi. i lowkey wonder if a pi could actually somehow run s-yxg50, or a native port of it.

The PicoPango uses a Rasberry Pi Pico microcontroller, not to be confused with the Rasberry Pi single board computer. I don't think this microcontroller has enough processing power to run a full emulator like the MUNT project.

While a re-implementation of Roland L/A synthesis or Yamaha XG extensions would be technically feasible, I do not know of anyone working on such a project.

dreamblaster wrote on 2026-10-11, 20:55:

The new firmware update 0.9.4 of PicoPango adds 'Chip' and 'Speaker' engines, and some general improvement. 'Speaker' makes a PC […]
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The new firmware update 0.9.4 of PicoPango adds 'Chip' and 'Speaker' engines, and some general improvement.
'Speaker' makes a PC-speaker 1 channel interpretation of the MIDI music...

Some demos of Doom E1M1 for your comparison :
'GU-Wave' synth : https://youtu.be/A-C0Wr8Dc-c
'FMC-FX' synth : https://youtu.be/Ql318iBo9h8
'Chip' synth : https://youtu.be/vmddvVdgW0k
'Speaker' synth : https://youtu.be/uKuUDefiNYE
'Pocket ' synth : https://youtu.be/GWEXfo7XpH4

Thanks for the demos, impressive enough for me to put in an order for one.

I like the GU-Wave quite a bit. The others, not so much...

SuperDeadite wrote on 2026-10-13, 00:03:

I like the GU-Wave quite a bit. The others, not so much...

GU-Wave is also the default on PicoPango, so that's easy then !

Can you implement/port 8-op FM synth FM-tone-generator?

And I'm curious that it would be possible to port Casio SW-10 to RP2350 code to be able to simulate a WG-130.

Somehow FedEx decided it was important to deliver this package in less than 48 hours.
Hopefully I have some time to try it out this weekend.

I had some time to try out my PicoPango today.
Had some fun trying out the various synth engines. The FM synth engines were surprisingly convincing.

The only bug I ran into so far was with the gu-wave engine.
The distorted guitar sample sounded very quiet. Very noticeable with E1M1 music for Heretic, and the Apogee theme for RAPTOR Call of the Shadows

akimmet wrote on 2026-10-15, 16:25:

Somehow FedEx decided it was important to deliver this package in less than 48 hours.
Hopefully I have some time to try it out this weekend.

That's why I like them better than UPS, who will rush something to a depot 10 miles away from you, and let it sit there 3 days to make the delivery guarantee time exact. (In business days, so if it was a holiday weekend 8 days)