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  • From: Christian Brandt <brandtc AT psi5.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] FM synthesis (for sindi and any others interested)
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:08:32 +0100

Samual Acorn schrieb:

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...

I still have a DB50XG around, but as you can not connect it to modern hardware it is basically a dustcatcher. At least Yamaha has released the SW50XG which is basically a pure software-emulation of the ROM, the H8-RISC-CPU and the DSPs requiring fast MMX-systems. And I mean fast. My 800Mhz Athlon was too slow. My 1200Mhz Athlon did the trick. All the old XG-tunes work perfect. But it is windows-only and therefore offtopic. Btw, Yamaha gave SW50XG to me for free because the DB50XG wasn't usable in newer systems after I used the board for six years. Talk about service.

Btw, google the Internet for "soundblaster soundbanks". While most of them are far away from the mighty DB50XG many are really worth a try and beat the usually blunt timidity soundbanks. My 2 cent, don't go for the biggest soundbanks at first as a 512MB soundbank is in real life and on older hardware pretty useless. Try 2MB, 16MB for a start. They should work perfectly within timidity. Most of them are free as there is a big fanmovement of people which create their own soundfonts.

There was a great german site with literally dozends of soundbanks all in a row but I lost the URL :-(

Christian Brandt




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