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Check it out and let me know what you guys think!
~Andrew
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Check it out and let me know what you guys think!
jaffa225man wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:50 pm That works very well for me, and I think it'll be a wonderful addition to the site. Of course, everything Spikey said is spot-on too.
Glad to hear it is working good for you guys. Sorry I've been so absent lately. Honestly, if I listed all the things going on in my life right now keeping me from working on the site more often, you guys probably would not believe me.Spikey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:59 am Pretty amazing. Obviously not perfect but MIDI playback for the average person rarely is! Most people would have no idea a conceptual difference between Adlib, GM and MT-32. This site is very useful, anything that furthers the life of MIDI is golden!
I still believe that digital versions of everything is better, but I don't see people rushing to fill that void (mainly because properly edited MIDI scores are not out there for a lot of games). I will try to do my part, and release more MIDI 'complete soundtracks' like Tom would have were he still able to do so.
Neat; I like the new features that seem to work! Is it just me, though, or does the Space Quest 3 Soundtrack play a bit too fast (My Pentium 90 MHz doesn't quite go that fast and it's still overkill for the game I think)? Also, I hadn't heard of "Time of the Pheonix" yet, but could the polyphony issue be caused by Munt running with the MT-32 ROMs versus CM-32L/LAPC-I? Does the player allow you to specify which ROMs are used on a per-track basis?
Thanks, it's nothing bad or anything, just a lot of stuff all at once. haha.jaffa225man wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:16 pmThanks for the update, & I hope you're alright with everything keeping you busy
The SQ3 soundtrack definitely plays fast there. In talking with Tomás about it we've not been able to figure out quite why. It's one of those things where it seems to be only that one file as far as what I've tested so it's more a matter of there being bigger fish to fry at the moment than investigating it further.jaffa225man wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:16 pmNeat; I like the new features that seem to work! Is it just me, though, or does the Space Quest 3 Soundtrack play a bit too fast (My Pentium 90 MHz doesn't quite go that fast and it's still overkill for the game I think)? Also, I hadn't heard of "Time of the Pheonix" yet, but could the polyphony issue be caused by Munt running with the MT-32 ROMs versus CM-32L/LAPC-I? Does the player allow you to specify which ROMs are used on a per-track basis?
Good; yeah, that happens.
I'm glad you were able to figure it out. It's strange that files from queststudios, always created with such care, have tempo issues. I guess formats can change or the sequencer used may have had a bug.andrew603 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:44 pm The SQ3 soundtrack definitely plays fast there. In talking with Tomás about it we've not been able to figure out quite why. It's one of those things where it seems to be only that one file as far as what I've tested so it's more a matter of there being bigger fish to fry at the moment than investigating it further.
Ah, well I probably perused the page involving contemporary compositions before I owned my MT-32 and forgot to check back there once I had it. It sounds great on your RWI MT-32, but I'll have to keep listening to each version before noticing the polyphony issues with polywave.xyzandrew603 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:44 pm "Time of the Phoenix" was one of Tom Lewandowski's original non-sierra compositions. As far as I am aware it is an MT-32 composition. Here is a recording of the song from my RWI-Modded MT-32. (maybe that's why it plays better?)
Fun reading, thanks! It's interesting that something as old as an ISA card is new enough by a few years to be auto-copyright (I assume Roland didn't include explicit copyright stamping on the LAPC-I's chip either), while the MT-32 isn't. Roland probably doesn't plan to release anything like an emulator for the CM-32L/LAPC-I/CM-64, though, so copyright law's change in time for this, in this case feels like an utter loss.andrew603 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:44 pm Anyway, an interesting note regarding the MT-32/CM32L ROMs: AFAIK the MT-32 ROM's are now public domain but the CM-32L ROMs are not. You can read a tiny be more about it here: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/14 ... 2-emulator and here: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/10/11 ... or-project
Yup, Willy Beamish required a wait with my slow internet service, but works great.