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["Samual Acorn" <sam.acorn AT gmail.com>]

as promised; some recordings of FM synth the way it was -supposed- to
be done... in these tunes each voice of the OPL chips are controlled
directly... stereo/echo/reverb/polyphony and even the instrument
parameters themselves are all done manually... nothing is preset...

first a very old tune... composed just for the OPL2...
http://rapidshare.de/files/18539280/adlib_ticktock.ogg.html
the OPL2 is mono and has only 8 voices...

http://rapidshare.de/files/18538281/adlib_cheatengine.ogg.html
this one is also for the OPL2... with a little more interesting
instruments.. not sounding quite like general midis fm patches
anymore...

http://rapidshare.de/files/18534740/adlib_oldschool.ogg.html
now for the OPL3 ... a stereo chip with 18 voices and more waveform
options... 'reverb' was of course done manually... the width of the
variable width pulse used as the lead at the beginning and end can be
changed as the note is playing... not quite GMs domain...

http://rapidshare.de/files/18540187/adlib_encore.ogg.html
again OPL3... and the most complex of the tunes... so much so that the
artist said that they wouldnt ever try something like this again...
see if you can 'name the tune'....


and just for good measure (no pun intended) a demo of another
apparently obsolete chip... the yamaha XG...

http://rapidshare.de/files/18540947/yxg_xgtechno.zip.html

the XG seems to be like a hybrid of directly programmable chips and
general midi... the file is zipped with both the .ogg and the .midi
file that was played to get the ogg... while technically the midi file
will play on anything it wont work right on anything other than the XG
due to the extended instructions XG has that general midi doesnt...
see how it does with the clavicorda keyboard...


PS my apologies for the 'buzz' in the background... the sblive that
was used for recording seems to have problems when its line-in is
connected to the line-out of other soundcards... seems very sensitive
to groundloops... even if the ground isnt connected...



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