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

I attempted to download these with both lynx and links2, and was told both 
times 'please enable javascript', also that the download site was busy 
because Premium (paying) users were downloading.  I doubt that wget can be 
made to download from sites requiring javascript.

I will try with Opera some time, but I don't have it set up to work 
with mplayer.  Is this streaming ogg?  If not, do you know how to post 
streaming ogg at 32KB/sec or so?    Or would this not be good enough 
quality to learn anything?

I ran across 'grip' to create OGG files, also ffmpegtotheora (theora is 
ogg) and ripit and 'Ogg Vorbis Encoder 1.0b4 for Linux' and Cakewalk and 
crip.  What program did you use and does it work with BL?

A friend is recording his LPs to aiff (which I think is uncompressed).  I 
might try recording to ogg.

Your files are:
1.9MB, 605KB, 1.3MB, 2.9MB and 2.5MB
I download at about 6MB/hour.  I might try listening at a friend's house 
where there is broadband.

Am I correct that you have played these files with OPL2 and OPL3 and XG 
(software synthesis) and recorded them to wav and then converted to ogg, 
which you uploaded to this free file-sharing site?

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Samual Acorn wrote:

> On 21/04/06, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> these are ogg vorbis files... you dont need a specific soundcard...
> just one that works...
>
> > > 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.
>
> these werent/arent midi files... playmidi wasnt used... but you could
> think of it that way... the opl3 does support 2operator mode just that
> it has more options like stereo... that can be used in two op mode...
> the above songs are mono and 2op only because thats all the opl2 can
> do...
>
> > > 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).
>
> softsynth is the software version of the XG... to be honest... its
> what i used too.. an old copy of S-YXG70 that came included on the PC
> version of final fantasy 7.... unfortunatly it only works in windows
> 9x... if anyone out there knows where to get an NT version im all ears
> but i think this is the wrong list to ask this on...
>
> > 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.
> >
> >   ================================
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> depending on how the card is built you might be able to replace 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...
> >
> > > --
> > > --sam
> > > http://mephitus.renamon.org/
> > > "When you've done something right, no one will be sure you've done
> > > anything at all." -- Futurama
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