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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Samual Acorn wrote:

> 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...

I will try this out as soon as I put together a computer that has a 
working SB16 sound card, a working IDE controller, and a modem.
I am currently online via Toshiba laptop/pcmcia.

> 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.

playmidi -f ?  As opposed to playmidi -4 for the one below?
I will also try playmidi -f on the OPL3 file.

> 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

I think I have this chip in the Win98 laptop!  It starts up with some 
message about Yamaha XG Softsynth.  I can try listening to your three 
files with Windows/Yamaha.  (Turns out the PCMCIA slot is okay, the 
Winmodem 'cannot open port' so is probably dead).

How would I set up the Yamaha XG sound card to work in linux (after 
shrinking Windows with Partition Resizer or Partition Manager)?    If it 
needs ALSA sound, would it be simpler to install SW10.2 (and will it fit 
into 500MB without source code or compiler?)


I gave up on the sound chip in the Toshiba and Hitachi laptops (some cross 
between MSS and SBPro for play and record) but got the video working 
(similar config for both).  This Win98 laptop has Neomagic video, which 
might be a pain to set up for X but is not needed for playing with sound.

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I also just realized that the essolo1 PCI sound card in the Win98 desktop 
played at full volume through some really cheap unpowered speakers, which 
implies that my other card (in the linux computer with powered speakers 
turned up full) has a dead amp on it.

> 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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