Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 00:49

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Another aspect I haven't really thought through: how to hook everything up. I have: - Let's say a MIDI module with line-out. - A MFF PC with built-in speakers, but only a headset port 'in', and line-out. - A monitor with built-in speakers and only hdmi in. Is there a way to use a headset port for …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-18, 22:09

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The setting I have to 'set to what it already was set to' to hackily fix the issue is this one: Actually if the already selected rhythm part is the same as before then selecting the same part again does the same as selecting the default 'Standard 1' drum set (the same way as I had shown in the …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-18, 18:49

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Adding to Philscomputerlab post using SAVIHost to use the SC-VA plugin; To force SC-55 map in dosbox, start the SAVIHost SC-VA plugin and click on the PlugIn tab, click Filters, mark SysEx. Go into "Control Changes" by pressing the "..." button near it, select 000 and 032 (use ctrl), press OK, mark …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 16:25

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The SC-8820 is small and lightweight, so it fits your basic requirements, but the Dreamblaster x16GS in an external CHILL casing would give you the most quality and portability. For "checks all the boxes", the best choice would be a first-version X2GS in the matching shell-case. Thanks, I'll check …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 16:05

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For your particular setup, a good choice would be one of the old portable Edirol (Roland subsidiary) Studio Canvas modules or one of the portable Yamaha XG modules, both of which are still readily available for purchase on eBay and other such sites. Is there a specific or example module you'd be …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 14:23

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For your particular setup, a good choice would be one of the old portable Edirol (Roland subsidiary) Studio Canvas modules or one of the portable Yamaha XG modules, both of which are still readily available for purchase on eBay and other such sites. Is there a specific or example module you'd be …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 14:15

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Yeah there's a soundcanvas munt equivalent emulator out there but its still being worked on and it'll probably be a while before it works seamlessly. Once its done chances are someone will probably make a pi-hat type device for it. Yes, I've been watching that project. Would simplify things a lot!

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 13:11

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There’s a portable Sound Canvas. The SCP-55. Requires drivers and a PCMCIA slot. Oh, that's really cool. Didn't know these existed. If not for this build I might dig up an old laptop for one. They are rare though, it seems. - As far as I can tell SFF Optiplexes don't have PCMCIA slots or headers. - …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 13:07

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Dreamblaster X2GS would be good enough for most people. Yeah, I've been looking at those, but I don't really understand what I'm looking at- are these daughter boards to a (specific) host card? Or can they connect as an external device? And as for the Roland sounds, are these similar to a soundfont …

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PCem + Voodoo: mipmapping issues?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 08:31

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I have tried setting up different w95-98SE systems with PCem, with Voodoo 1 or 2 enabled for game compatibility and required for performance on my host PC. Most things work well, but *many* 3Dfx games suffer from striped 'candy cane' textures all over the place. I have (possibly wrongly) narrowed …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2024-01-16, 19:28

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Adding to Philscomputerlab post using SAVIHost to use the SC-VA plugin; To force SC-55 map in dosbox, start the SAVIHost SC-VA plugin and click on the PlugIn tab, click Filters, mark SysEx. Go into "Control Changes" by pressing the "..." button near it, select 000 and 032 (use ctrl), press OK, mark …

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Re: Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-16, 17:40

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There’s a portable Sound Canvas. The SCP-55. Requires drivers and a PCMCIA slot. Oh, that's really cool. Didn't know these existed. If not for this build I might dig up an old laptop for one. They are rare though, it seems. - As far as I can tell SFF Optiplexes don't have PCMCIA slots or headers. - …

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Current options for a 'portable Sound Canvas' (on a Pi or SBC etc.)?

Posted on 2024-01-16, 14:40

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I have a real SC-50 for use with my main PC, but I recently built a portable retro game PC and was wondering if there are any projects or options out there to build a 'portable Sound Canvas', a small box that can connect via USB as an external MIDI device for instance. I think MT-32 emulation is in …

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Re: Fighter Wing (Merit / Gemsoft): getting engine noise to work

Posted on 2023-05-10, 21:20

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ripsaw8080 wrote on 2023-04-17, 21:44: [...] only one or the other toggled with the "/" key [...] Thanks so much for your reply- I completely missed still having to switch to engine noise in-game, even after already having explicitly chosen it in the setup program. Ahem, so, anyway... it indeed …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-04-24, 20:51

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[...] The 7th Guest, in both DOSBox and ScummVM, the initial music in the foyer is clearly 'off', and Descent in DOSBox also has noticeable issues. It's the drum section, the wrong drum sounds are playing. I noticed the VA starts with Rhythm Part - Drum1 set to Part10. I need to set it to the same …

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Fighter Wing (Merit / Gemsoft): getting engine noise to work

Posted on 2023-04-17, 17:54

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I recently wanted to try the old (and not that great) flight sim Fighter Wing, by Merit / Gemsoft, in DOSbox- I remember from childhood it had engine sounds, but after installing it from my old CD it only had music, and I initially couldn't find the option to enable engine noise instead. Turns out …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-04-03, 10:33

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FWIW, I looked up the 3050m and liked it, so I got myself one too. :) Mine came without a CPU but I had a i5-6600T laying around so I installed that, and a 256G SSD. Made it dual-boot DOS and win10. To do that, I booted from a FreeDOS USB, used fdisk to make a 2G partition (careful to not enable …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-03-29, 15:42

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I've played around with Sound Canvas VA in the meantime. Works *fairly* well, I've noticed a couple of minor differences compared to the real thing, but pretty good overal and I would consider it a pretty good solution. HOWEVER I noticed with two games so far, The 7th Guest, in both DOSBox and …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 22:04

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Yeah, it's fun building these surprisingly competent mini and micro PC's :). I had initially tried the same with a LarkBox Pro (a super tiny cube), but stability, BIOS and driver issues made me abandon that one and go for the MFF Dell. Played a lot of Frontier: Elite II back in the day. I did have …

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Re: Official Roland Sound Canvas emulation options- can someone bring me up to speed?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 21:33

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Sure! I wanted to make a portable retro 'party box', and went with a used Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro (Intel i5-7500T @2.5GHz, 16GB, VGA & HDMI out) and added fast SSD storage for boot, and an external drive for games. Currently it dual boots Windows 10 and Batocera, and it connects to the NAS at home …

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