Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-10, 11:08

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Actually, I'm pretty excited for the JV-880 emulation. Anyone musician here who used the hardware before? It sounds pretty good in this video. '90s good :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19yOA2GrSE It just *begs* to be converted into a CLAP plugin :D My understanding is it's totally useless for GM …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-06, 11:13

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You can share hashes of anything. But then, some people have bigger balls ;) (edit by Dominus: removed warez link) (hosting every single cracked version of every C64 game in the known universe, extremely publicly) Same for the English Amiga Board's FTP, etc. Or MAME, in fact. Well, it's preservation …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-06, 03:06

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Nice. We can all pretend we're verifying these hashes against our own dumps if that makes people feel better 😉

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-05, 22:56

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kode54 wrote on 2024-05-05, 22:34: someone may think I'm trying to encourage acquiring them by means other than dumping it from your own SC55. ...which we know only like 3 people on Earth are currently capable of doing 🤣 That's next-level, even for Vogons 🤣 Okay, moving on...

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-05, 07:34

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Highly unlikely, as Roland Cloud seem to be a failed experiment. lol. they are making money hand over fist. they continually update it with zen core sounds packs every week. its not going anywhere. its there unified distribution point for everything now. Not quite. They might be releasing sound …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-05, 00:05

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you can still buy it. $69 for a lifetime license. but you still have to be logged into roland cloud, though it's possible to have a free account which only gives you zenology lite, and then use the 69$ lifetime membership. having acquired it, it's possible to patch around the cloud issue. Or you …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 12:15

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Thanks, glad you liked my article :) I'm not trying to be difficult, but with all respect, I think you're putting words into my mouth :) I'm not steering anybody anywhere, I was merely reflecting to this statement of another poster, based on my experience and quite thorough research (I spent almost …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 09:13

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Nuked SC-55 also means actually emulating a SC-55 from it's original ROMs where as SCVA is based on the SC-8820 which has a lot of differences such that "accurate" SC-55 playback on it isn't really possible. Those accuracy concerns are a little overblown. The SCVA emulates the SC-55 about 95-99% …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 07:05

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wow. this is a real mess. you can't make a vst host without a license. vst3 is dual license, with one of them being gplv3. Making a single vst3 host or plugin does lock you out of vst2. but as long as you do not have a vst3 license, it seems you can still update vst2 stuff. I don't know if any of …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-05-04, 07:00

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Another advantage of Nuked SC55 over SCVA is portability. I don’t really feel like spinning up a copy of Falcosoft MIDI Player in wine to host a virtual midi port on Linux. Then again, I guess it’s not much more or less overhead than running an instance of the emulator, except I have to use a drm …

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Re: ESFM details

Posted on 2024-04-18, 11:26

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Not sure if you guys are aware that DOSBox-X can now emulate the ESS1688 and ESFM in "native mode". I went through most of the DOS games starting from 1995 that support the Miles Sound System, and I found a few more that let you select the "ESS Enhanced FM" music driver. Here's the complete list of …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-11, 01:43

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> I don't expect it to sound good at this stage. Heh, you don't seem to read what's been posted in this thread, neither do you seem to test things before posting... It sounds PERFECT, I've A/B compared it extensively with my own SC-55 hardware recordings, and it's indistinguishable from hardware. …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-11, 01:43

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In 16-bit integer mode (which is the default and is also used by mt32-pi)... FWIW, this is false - mt32-pi uses the floating-point render path for both Munt and FluidSynth. mt32-pi is compiled with aggressive NEON and vectorisation optimisations enabled and so even the Z2W can comfortably use this …

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Re: [RELEASE] Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55 series emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-11, 01:35

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> I don't expect it to sound good at this stage. Heh, you don't seem to read what's been posted in this thread, neither do you seem to test things before posting... It sounds PERFECT, I've A/B compared it extensively with my own SC-55 hardware recordings, and it's indistinguishable from hardware. …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 07:30

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In this particular case, I've only played Stonekeep for 5-10 minutes. Very cool game, though, I will surely revisit it some time. Brian Fargo & co. at their best (perhaps). Stonekeep was one of the first PC RPGs that I ever played, so it will always be special to me. :) It has a great soundtrack, …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 07:07

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See my blog post for concrete examples: https://blog.johnnovak.net/2023/03/05/grand-ms-dos-gaming-general-midi-showdown/ Interesting analysis. I only disagree with your assessment of Stonekeep. That game uses GS instruments in some (all?) of its tracks when the "Roland GS" option is selected in …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 05:08

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Dunno why many expect this thread to explode. Some developers aren't clout-driven and it's at an early stage anyway... This is the rare case when product on its early stage already performs great. Exactly. The emulation itself is spot on and there's nothing to improve, really (apart from maybe the …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-08, 02:15

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Music composed for the GS standard (not GM), specifically for the SC-55, will sound slightly or a lot wrong on other GS or GM devices. See my blog post for concrete examples: https://blog.johnnovak.net/2023/03/05/grand-ms-dos-gaming-general-midi-showdown/ I wanted to record FluidSynth renditions as …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-07, 06:44

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Ikr I banged on about EmuSC ages ago ands peoples response was : meh Now we have a second emulator with Nuked and the response has been pretty underwhelming. This is like one of the last missing pieces of the puzzle when it comes to dos emulation , like come on guys! I guess this place has become a …

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Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-04-07, 05:48

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Ikr I banged on about EmuSC ages ago ands peoples response was : meh Now we have a second emulator with Nuked and the response has been pretty underwhelming. This is like one of the last missing pieces of the puzzle when it comes to dos emulation , like come on guys! I guess this place has become a …

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