Spikey wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:06 am
Hey folks,
I posted this in the Facebook group "Sierra Music and Memories" this week after it hit 300 members (come join!).
It's the 3rd revision of my "what Sierra games to play with what synth" guide, and has some extra information for those that seek it, as well as quick navigation (just follow the bold text) for those that want it.
Any questions, comments, or corrections, contact me.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12B9 ... ue&sd=true
Yes, thanks again for reposting it here. I have one possible solution to your note about needing to load the queststudios' soundtrack SysEx to enable chorus/reverb, turn the SC-55 off, start the game and turn the SC-55 back on, in order to avoid GS resets: My qmidiroute patch, with its SysEx edit rules can remove GS reset with this in the Input "SysEx" text box (the GS reset):
F0 41 10 42 12 40 00 7F 00 41 F7
and nothing in the Output "SysEx" text box.
The empty Output box, just tells my qmidiroute edit to replace that particular input message with nothing, and deletes the message.
I decided to just create a basic qmr file for you, but chose to also delete GM & GM2 resets, in case they would ever be used in a game. Commas separate each input and output message.
Input:
F0 41 10 42 12 40 00 7F 00 41 F7, F0 7E 7F 09 01 F7, F0 7E 7F 09 03 F7
Output:
, ,
Here's the .qmr:
Since building qmidiroute on windows isn't possible, I would suggest building and running it on a raspberry pi with a USB MIDI interface. For that, you'd have to have a startup script that runs qmidiroute with the described qmr as its argument, aconnect your USB MIDI IN (probably 20:0, or 24:0) to 129:0 (qmidiroute in) and another aconnect from 129:1 (qmidiroute out) to your USB MIDI OUT (probably 20:1, or 24:1). "aconnect -l" lists your interface's designated port numbers, rather than relying on my guesses.
Perhaps someday, I'll roll out a raspberry pi image with this stuff automated, so fooling around manually won't be necessary, but then I'd also have to include instructions on how to copy over each user's chosen qmr. Unless improvements have been made in raspberry pi accessibility (or the ability to mount the micro-SD card image on windows) even that instruction is daunting.
I am in the middle of weeding out bugs before my next release of new features with qmidiroute and, just so you know, this .qmr isn't going to work with it because, it has a different save format again. The SysEx text box content described above will continue to work, though.
Since that's much more work than switching the SC-55 off for a few seconds, I doubt you'll be trying it anytime soon, but pedantically, it is a software/hardware solution.
Edit: On second thought, qmidiroute could replace the reset messages with messages to enable chorus and reverb, but I don't really want to research that SysEx, unless you're really interested.
I hope you're well, and that it may help,
Lucas