mwdmeyer wrote:

From borgie03? 😁

I missed one of his V3 3000 PCIs which would have been nice, hard to get...

Yup 😀

It's not often that such products appear locally. And I don't see them getting any cheaper...

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Had a "you only live once" moment yesterday and purchased a V4 4500 and V5 5500 off eBay Australia from a fellow VOGONS member 😊

Congrats! 😀

Thanks 😀

I'm very busy currently so it will be a while to play with them. But I will give them a quick testing ASAP and then plan my next project.

I put a minimum bid on a MSI 865PE NEO2-P motherboard and nobody else bid 😀 99 cent + $17 postage. Not too bad.

keropi wrote:

@jwt27
thanks for the recording , how does it perform in more known doom/duke3d songs?

Duke3D: https://app.box.com/s/ivrf6g1kssbtlool25nk
Doom: https://app.box.com/s/ijkjfjcdd20rj7o25obc
Blood: https://app.box.com/s/qxlp1lnv2p0d19nv4ada

One problem I noticed with this synth, is that it needs a short delay after a patch change message, or else it starts "stuttering" on the first few notes. Most games set up their patches at the start of a new track so it's noticable, but only once (you can hear it in Doom right at the beginning)... But with games that keep changing patches in the middle of a song (Wacky Wheels) it's really annoying.

Also I've been looking through the preset patches in Perform/Patch modes and they're WAY better than the sounds in GM mode. They must have picked the cheesy sounds for GM on purpose 🤣

Got some hardware today as well: a pair of closed headphones (Philips SHL3300) 😀

^ thanks for the uploads!
to me it's clear that the module is better than the generic wavetable daughterboards I've heard... nice addition for some sound variety! 😀
the specs are pretty impressive as well: http://www.roland.com/products/en/JV-1010/ , 64 voice polyphony, 1023 patches... 😎

keropi wrote:

^ thanks for the uploads!
to me it's clear that the module is better than the generic wavetable daughterboards I've heard... nice addition for some sound variety! 😀
the specs are pretty impressive as well: http://www.roland.com/products/en/JV-1010/ , 64 voice polyphony, 1023 patches... 😎

Plus it has space for 128 user-definable patches in memory, so I could just make my own GM patch bank with better sounds 😉
Now if only I had the software to edit it...

yes, the specs are pro!
what software does the edit software need to be? a librarian one like Midi Quest for example?

keropi wrote:

yes, the specs are pro!
what software does the edit software need to be? a librarian one like Midi Quest for example?

The cd that originally came with it included a custom version of "Emagic SoundDiver". I got mine from eBay without the disc. Found a copy of it here, so I'm downloading it right now 😀

Might need the serial cable and/or Win9x to use it though...

^ great! I am sure if a serial is needed you can ask the uploader, it's a recent upload luckily and you do own the hardware for it 😊

jwt27 wrote:

Duke3D: https://app.box.com/s/ivrf6g1kssbtlool25nk
Doom: https://app.box.com/s/ijkjfjcdd20rj7o25obc
Blood: https://app.box.com/s/qxlp1lnv2p0d19nv4ada

Wow! It sounds incredible! I want one! 😀 😀 😀

Of course.. they are expensive. 😒

I don't really know much about synths but some googling around about this unit brought me to a comment that mentioned an editor you can hook up to it to really expand the unit.

http://squest.com/Windows/MidiQuestXL/MidiQuest-About.html

I have ordered three of these motherboards from an online webshop. (as backup for in the future, so i can easilly replace it when its not repairable anymore.)

Asrock Z77 extreme6

It will replace my asus p5Q3 Deluxe wifi apn motherboard and intel core 2 qx9650 set..

I bought particular this motherboard because of the intergrated floppy drive connector.. It would be ideal for my `retro` everyting games machine till windows xp.
I dont like USB floppy drives, because mostly they are not 100% backwards compatible with the real stuff. An IDE connector I did not necessarily need.

I only have to wait, till it maybe arrive here.

Zoltrix Audio Performer:

bristlehog wrote:

Zoltrix Audio Performer

Never heard of this one. 😐

Its a clone of something.
I guess the top large one is Crystal 4232, little one on the left being Media Vision Thunder thingy and the one on the bottom I've seen on a different card clone of mine as well. I dont think its OPL because the card i have has a separate one for OPL2.

Some more graphics cards 😀

Finally got a V3 🤣

Also can't have enough AGP GeForce 6600GT cards. IMO a fantastic card for a Pentium 4 Northwood build.

Zoltrix Audio Performer is a clone of SB Pro (CT1330). Has dual, though not genuine, OPL2.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Also can't have enough AGP GeForce 6600GT cards. IMO a fantastic card for a Pentium 4 Northwood build.

I prefer 6800GT's, because they were designed for AGP and don't have the PCI-E --> AGP conversion chip onboard. 😉

GeorgeMan wrote:

I prefer 6800GT's, because they were designed for AGP and don't have the PCI-E --> AGP conversion chip onboard. 😉

Yes but they are much harder to find! And expensive and somewhat more complex. The AGP 6600GT can be found online all the time and for little money. I haven't seen 6800GT for a long time. Not to mention for a good price...

GeorgeMan wrote:

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Also can't have enough AGP GeForce 6600GT cards. IMO a fantastic card for a Pentium 4 Northwood build.

I prefer 6800GT's, because they were designed for AGP and don't have the PCI-E --> AGP conversion chip onboard. 😉

6800 ULTRA! I got lucky and managed to pick up a rare eVGA 6800 Ultra Extreme. They only produced a small run of these and held a lottery to determine who would be allowed to buy one. The one I got was boxed but used and was missing one of the DVI to VGA adapters but those are easy enough to find. It didn't cost too much more than what a regular used in box 6800 Ultra was selling for at the time.

http://www.evga.com/articles/public.asp?aid=188