First post, by Skatoony
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Several users on this board have probably saw this over at The Mod Archive or Quest Studios (there's nothing new recorded 😉 ) but I decided to post here since this seems to be quite an active forum that I completely forgot about.
I've had this Gravis Ultrasound MAX with the RAM upgrade for quite a while now. Got it for free off a friend of mine with all disks (including Doom Shareware!), manuals, box and everything else (some USA adverts in it).
The thing I never did much of was use it. Since I'm a fan of music modules, I decided to try this experiment of playing some old and new'ish music modules on the GUS MAX using the original software (where possible). You can access the modules as directory listing here or, if you prefer, download them based on their category.
Impulse Tracker
Blue Flame
Drifting Onwards (due to hardware mode, no filters)
The Dark Forest
Digital Serenity
2nd Unreality
SDXB - Board 3
Fast Tracker 2
Cosmic Outflow
Cosmic wegian mamas (part of a compo, made with MilkyTracker)
Deadlock
Lab 3
MV Universe
Stranglehold (made purely from sine waves)
Stranglehold - Letting go (made purely from sine waves)
Network
Return to Nebula 9
Scream Tracker 3
Mystique Part One
Mystique Part Two
Orpheous
The Blue Valley (uses Scream Tracker 3 as it's file type, but was composed in Orpheus.)
MODs (played via Impulse Tracker)
Stardust Memories
Spacedel.short
Vibe the Pipe
Symphonic
The thing I love the most about these? The hardware interpolation on the samples. To me, it's unmatchable by any other sound card. I'm still looking for that GUS PnP to extend this experiment to modules over 1MB 😁
PS. Don't go on about the AWE32 and AWE64 please, I refuse to test them as the EMU8000 does not support sustained loops nor 8-bit samples (8-bit samples get converted to 16-bit in Impulse Tracker, thus causing the RAM usage to double in size). My AWE32 and AWE64 only have the default 512KB RAM, which would limit this experiment to the Amiga modules only.