If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
On 02/23/2013 09:30 AM, wrote:
Voyetra AudioStation to mess with MIDIs. According to this http://download.cnet.com/AudioStatio...-10070509.html It will run in XP so there should be no need for you to install Win98 in a virtual machine -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
On Feb 24, 7:56*pm, 98 Guy wrote:
Look at these: http://woolyss.com/chipmusic/chipmus...-3_FM_128M.zip http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?EMU%20de%20MIDI http://milkpot.sakura.ne.jp/fmmidi/ http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?EMU%20de%20MIDI http://soundshock.se/phpBB2/index.php Thanks a lot 98 guy! That OPL3 soundfont isn't it but it's close enough. It felt really weird hearing the pieces again after 15 years. Now if there were only such thing as mindfonts... I'll still be on the lookout for a more genuine synthesis, I'll ask those guys at soundshock later. Thanks again. |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
On Feb 26, 12:26*am, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , writes: On Feb 24, 3:13*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: What is this "Squarewave instrument"? Lead 1 (Square) Is it just a squarewave? Yes. There are stylized versions but they sound nothing like the bull**** by the MS GS synth. I'm very surprised if something is being presented as a squarewave but isn't, as it must be the simplest of all sounds! The very earliest synths did it correctly but time went on and they thought they'd be cute by stylizing it into something more complex until it resembled less and less what it's supposed to. I guess they wanted it to sound less like a cellphone beep as it would sound by itself. Even the OPL3's synth of Squarewaves look more like rounded rectangle waves when viewed in an editor, yet the strike of the notes are more sharp. And just as I vaguely remembered, the FX4 (Atmosphere) instrument sounds closer to a squarewave than Lead 1 (Square) which sound something in between a sine and square. Professional soundcards (non-onboard) like the later generations of Soundblaster have much smoother and realistic instruments including for Squarewave. I noticed OPL3 has no synth for half the guitars and its synth for Sawwaves sucks as bad as MS GS wavetable. I'll be surprised if there is no MIDI-to-WAV converter out there. Hang on: googling the phrase comes up with about 411,000 hits: http://download.cnet.com/MIDI-To-WAV...-10833627.html says it uses SoundFonts by default making it quicker than "the other method";http://www.hamienet.com/midi2mp3is an online one; and so on. Some are commercial, and some of the links just tell you how to do what you know already, but I am sure some are free. Lol! Hamienet. The site I uploaded some of my stuff on back in the day. I wonder if they're still up there. And there's an intelligent method to quickly convert MIDIs? Interesting. I've really gotten behind the tech. Gotta catch up. |
#25
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
|
#26
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
On Feb 26, 4:00*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message ,zarlox writes: [] The very earliest synths did it correctly but time went on and they thought they'd be cute by stylizing it into something more complex until it resembled less and less what it's supposed to. I guess they wanted it to sound less like a cellphone beep as it would sound by itself. Even the OPL3's synth of Squarewaves look more like rounded rectangle waves when viewed in an editor, yet the strike of the notes It's just that I find it difficult to imagine anyone actually _synthesizing_ a square wave. [] Soundblaster have much smoother and realistic instruments including for Squarewave. I noticed OPL3 has no synth for half the guitars and its synth for Sawwaves sucks as bad as MS GS wavetable. I just can't think of a squarewave as an _instrument_. It's just - a squarewave. Obviously you've never listened to JMJ, Complex Numbers or played any 8-bit consoles that use Square, Saw and Triangle waves exclusively with much of the music being pleasant on the ears. Complex Numbers song with extensive use of Squarewave: http://mp3.music.lib.ru/mp3/c/comple...-2029_ad-2.mp3 |
#27
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , writes: [] The very earliest synths did it correctly but time went on and they thought they'd be cute by stylizing it into something more complex until it resembled less and less what it's supposed to. I guess they wanted it to sound less like a cellphone beep as it would sound by itself. Even the OPL3's synth of Squarewaves look more like rounded rectangle waves when viewed in an editor, yet the strike of the notes It's just that I find it difficult to imagine anyone actually _synthesizing_ a square wave. [] Soundblaster have much smoother and realistic instruments including for Squarewave. I noticed OPL3 has no synth for half the guitars and its synth for Sawwaves sucks as bad as MS GS wavetable. I just can't think of a squarewave as an _instrument_. It's just - a squarewave. Agreed. How could a square wave be an instrument? Ditto for a pure sinewave, for that matter. |
#28
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
On Feb 27, 12:12*am, "Bill in Co"
wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , writes: [] The very earliest synths did it correctly but time went on and they thought they'd be cute by stylizing it into something more complex until it resembled less and less what it's supposed to. I guess they wanted it to sound less like a cellphone beep as it would sound by itself. Even the OPL3's synth of Squarewaves look more like rounded rectangle waves when viewed in an editor, yet the strike of the notes It's just that I find it difficult to imagine anyone actually _synthesizing_ a square wave. [] Soundblaster have much smoother and realistic instruments including for Squarewave. I noticed OPL3 has no synth for half the guitars and its synth for Sawwaves sucks as bad as MS GS wavetable. I just can't think of a squarewave as an _instrument_. It's just - a squarewave. Agreed. How could a square wave be an instrument? * Ditto for a pure sinewave, for that matter. Ask Jean Michel Jarre, he's probably the first to make use of it in music and gain international commendation. |
#29
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
|
#30
|
|||
|
|||
Playing MIDIs with Win98's original SB16 OPL3 sound card
On Feb 27, 4:12*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , writes: On Feb 27, 12:12 am, "Bill in Co" wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] I just can't think of a squarewave as an _instrument_. It's just - a squarewave. Agreed. How could a square wave be an instrument? Ditto for a pure sinewave, for that matter. I'm glad someone agrees with me, and sees what I'm getting at. Ask Jean Michel Jarre, he's probably the first to make use of it in music and gain international commendation. I doubt he was the first, actually (I think Rolf Harris might have beat him by a decade or so); but whether he did or didn't, it's not an instrument, it's a waveform. It's like saying red is art. Red is a colour. It can be _used_ in art. It's equipped into many guitars and keyboards who may or may not reproduce it perfectly. We obviously disagree on the definition of an instrument but in this digital age, many have ceased to be in the physical form we're used to. As squarewaves are a distinct sound which can be used as legit musical notes, I think it qualifies as an instrument. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Almost playing MIDIs | [email protected] | Setup & Installation | 2 | May 14th 05 08:37 PM |
help me -no sound when playing dvd but playing music is ok | me_la_urean | Multimedia | 1 | December 10th 04 02:04 PM |
no sound (original ain't it!!) | moonraker | Multimedia | 3 | October 6th 04 02:43 PM |
sound not playing on headphones but on speakers | confused | Hardware | 5 | July 18th 04 02:36 PM |
Copy a CD and no sound when playing the file | Curt | Multimedia | 0 | June 14th 04 06:55 AM |