Question about MT-32 emulation...

The Spoony Hou · Post by **The Spoony Hou** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:07 am

Ok. Thanks for your time

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Well, time to go hunting some Roland stuff

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JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:01 pm

LogicDeLuxe wrote:Also there is a Virtual Sound Canvas (expiring Demo available), which is a software version (unfortunately not for DOS games as they usually need an MPU401 port). It has the advantage that you don't need to build in any (old) hardware. Though the sound quality is notably worse than that of the hardware solutions, imho.

Does ScummVM support the Virtual Sound Canvas? There's a copy on ebay I'm tempted by. Also, how much worse quality would you say it is?

It's so frustrating that Roland haven't produced a small PCI hardware replacement... I could buy a Commodore64 SID chip for my PC, but not an MT-32 one. Very sad

LogicDeLuxe · Post by **LogicDeLuxe** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:20 pm

JohnnyWalker2001 wrote:Does ScummVM support the Virtual Sound Canvas?

Any Windows software should.

There's a copy on ebay I'm tempted by. Also, how much worse quality would you say it is?

It's 22050 Hz sample frequency while the Roland hardware is at 32000 Hz, iIrc. You should try to find the demo version.
Imho, due to its low sample frequency, it's not any better than the synthesizer which comes with Windows.

JohnnyWalker2001 · Post by **JohnnyWalker2001** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:42 pm

Well I tried it and I've got to say that I pleasantly surprised! It sounds a million times better than it used to (IMO). Thanks!