Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-12-07, 13:47

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I just got my 2.0 board in a few days ago and have been enjoying playing with it. I was wondering if anyone had success getting it working under Win95? I can install the original Gravis Ultrasound driver and it doesn't complain. But when I set the address, IRQ, and DMA appropriately just no sound …

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2023-09-11, 13:13

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Wonderful! Works great, thanks so much for digging into this and solving the problem.

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2023-09-08, 18:11

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Oh wow nice work! I will try this when I get home after work. I did try your previous fix and ADLplug worked great after that. I got constant hangs and crashes with OPNplug though. But I guess this fix solves the problem at its root.

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2023-09-04, 17:48

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Okay, I now see the banks and can access them. There's a bit of a trick to it to get the selection to stick that I had to work out, but I got it functioning. Upon changing to a new bank selection, the new selection doesn't change in the bank name field. It doesn't look like any settings change. And …

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Re: VST Midi Driver Midi Mapper

Posted on 2023-09-04, 00:39

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I'm loving that this exists. However, I've run into a few issues. For ADLplug and OPNplug VSTs, no synth GUI opens and I get 2 errors in a row that say "Cannot save plugin settings!" and "Cannot load plugin settings!" Opening the VST settings manually with the configuration window and clicking " …

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2023-08-02, 23:54

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Very well, I understand. Thanks for your response.

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Re: Commodore 64

Posted on 2023-08-02, 22:19

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Ah geez. What a time to be a Canadian...

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2023-08-02, 22:09

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Falcosoft, is there any way that we can add an option/toggle in OPL3VSTi to function like OPL2 instead (supporting only mono output and max 9 voice-polyphony)? In tinkering with Sierra SCI games to preview songs and composing for SCI fangames, OPL3VSTi has been invaluable in previewing tracks and …

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Re: Yamaha FB-01/IMFC SCI tools (FB2SCI, SCI2FB, etc)

Posted on 2023-03-06, 04:50

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SCI2FB v1.01 is now released! It has been updated to support older patch files from SCI games that have only one sysex bank: -KQ4 -PQ2/LSL2 (they're identical, much like SQ3 and KQ1SCI's banks) -LSL2old (LSL2 has an older FB-01/IMF patch file with very different instruments) -Silpheed (the only non- …

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Re: FB2SCI (and other FB-01/IMFC tools for Sierra SCI games)

Posted on 2023-03-05, 01:46

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Good idea! Also, just completed SCI2FB which does the process in reverse (creates two FB-01 sysex bank files from an SCI patch file)! https://github.com/MusicallyInspired/SCI2FB EDIT: Well shoot. And now I've discovered some FB-01 patch banks are only 48 instruments and half the size. My program …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-04, 16:28

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So I'm wondering how similar the IMF and FB01 drivers are. I know that the only SCI1 games Sierra officially made support for KQ5, QFG2, and Jones and only for the IMF not the FB01. There doesn't appear to have existed any driver for the FB01 for SCI1 at all. Could we create one perhaps by …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-03, 19:47

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So, interestingly, the SCI1 FB-01 Patch resource has a different header for resource type identifier and also a string for the title of the game starting with "IMF - ". For KQ5 it's 10 extra bytes but for QFG2 it's 25. But otherwise it's the same as the SCI0 format. I'm not sure how the driver …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-02, 23:06

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That does sounds great! With a bit of fiddling and some librarian software you could certainly mix and match and fix up some of the other minor instruments that don't translate as nicely. But that's a solid base. What game is this patch originally from? I'm pretty much doing the same right now with …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-03-01, 18:47

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That makes total sense.

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-02-28, 14:59

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Okay so I retested with Scali's build and also DOSBox-X and it does indeed work fine. So I wonder what's wrong with my vanilla DOSBox?

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-02-28, 05:43

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Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820. I should also note that when I said the IMF DOSBox build works, I mean with the IMF.DRV driver.

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-02-27, 20:55

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Oh excellent! I will try this out. EDIT: Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. The FB-01 says there's a dump error and the instruments come out all wrong. IMF build of DOSBox still works fine with no errors and sounds very different (better). Tested on high and low DOSBox cycles and with SQ3 and KQ4 …

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-02-27, 13:07

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Yes that DOSBox build is a godsend. I tried the fixed drivers for the FB01 that I could find but it didn't change anything with the issue. The IMF DOSBox build is the way to go for now.

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Re: FB2SCI - Yamaha FB-01/IMFC bank sysex to SCI patch converter

Posted on 2023-02-26, 15:59

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Ah, this is very interesting! What is also interesting, is that some Sierra games have broken FB-01/IMFC soundbanks. That is, there are two ways to send instrument parameters via SysEx. One is to send parameters to a specific instrument, the other is to send parameters to a MIDI channel. Some …

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Yamaha FB-01/IMFC SCI tools (FB2SCI, SCI2FB, etc)

Posted on 2023-02-25, 22:24

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Update (05/03/2023): SCI2FB v1.01 update! It now supports older patch files that have only one sysex bank: -KQ4 -PQ2/LSL2 (they're identical, much like SQ3 and KQ1SCI) -LSL2old (LSL2 has an older FB-01/IMF patch file with very different instruments) -Silpheed (the only non-SCI game with an SCI- …

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