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Munt and the SC-55

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First post, by Danfun64

Posted on 2016-04-04, 17:51

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AFAIK, Munt is very close to completing its MT-32 and CM-32L emulation. Regardless of whether you do the CM-32P and CM-64 afterwards, do you have plans to eventually emulate the SC-55 and its derivatives (SC-55 mkii, SC-88, SC-88Pro)? There has never been a completely accurate way to play SC-55 music on software. Soundfonts aren't 100% accurate, because SC-55 uses synthesis as well as patches. Not to mention the existence of the CM-500, which allows both GM/GS and LA synthesis.

I doubt it will happen soon for either legal reasons or other reasons, but I'm wondering if you guys have that kind of thing planned.

Reply 1 of 7, by collector

Posted on 2016-04-04, 23:56

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What ever happened to Roland's Virtual Sound Canvas? Used to be not very good. I think there may be a VST version.

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Reply 2 of 7, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2016-04-05, 00:21

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Yes Roland released one recently. There is an existing thread. It's not perfect but as close as it currently gets 😀

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Reply 3 of 7, by Danfun64

Posted on 2016-04-05, 04:02

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It's called "Sound Canvas VA", isn't it?

Has anybody attempted to convert the new vst to sf2 and pat? Each for its different presets of course (sc-55, sc-88 etc)

Reply 4 of 7, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-04-05, 04:34

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Danfun64 wrote:

Has anybody attempted to convert the new vst to sf2 and pat? Each for its different presets of course (sc-55, sc-88 etc)

Not sure that we would be in a better situation that way. Soundfont clones of the SC-55 already exist, some available on this forum.

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Reply 5 of 7, by Danfun64

Posted on 2016-04-05, 05:39

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True, and I still think the SC-55 soundfont you linked is inferior to the old Scc1t2.sf2.

I wonder if the MUNT developers even plan to properly emulate the SC-55 one day...

Reply 6 of 7, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-04-05, 13:02

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SC-55 preset is a pretty good soundfont for being unencumbered. So many of the other ones are so dubiously legal.

I'm pretty grateful to sergm for giving us Munt, and I think he could do an awesome job creating an SC-55 soft synth. Doing so would be a pretty big favor, and I wouldn't want to pressure or urge him to take it on.

Has anyone approached the FluidSynth developers about making an SC-55 mode?

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Reply 7 of 7, by realnc

Posted on 2016-04-07, 13:05

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The 25MB SC-55 font is pretty good. Better than Scc1t2 and MUCH better than SC-55-preset.

I have no idea who made it though, but it's tagged with a Roland copyright.

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