Maes
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Super Jamie said:
Because for playing the Doom music, it sounds fucking awful.
Actually, pretty much anything fails at Doom's music, especially the guitars, with D_E1M1 being a good example.
With the OPL chip and the GENMIDI lump, the distorted guitar has just the right attack, sustain and release rate. With any other way of programming the OPL chips and with most Wavetable banks out there, the guitar just decays too quickly and sounds more like an overdriven squarewave banjo or bouzouki.
Ambient tracks like D_E1M2 work better, but guitars are just raped in the ass and left there to bleed (D_E2M1 sounds OK though).
This is probably because of the careful programming of the FM instruments, and many have no real equivalent in commonly available banks. If you find a soundfont bank that sounds OK or even great with a certain track, you can rest assured that it will fuck up another (or many others). Unless someone compiles a custom soundfont bank that works well with every track...this debate will keep going on and on forever.
There's a good thread here, where leileilol posted a couple of interesting recording of actual cards with OPL chips. That's how they are supposed to sound, and well, they definitively sounded better with bass boosted speakers, and also had differences from card to card due to analog circuits between the chip and the exit.
Gez said:
OPL emulation, OPL emulation... Where's the MT-32 emulation ?
Probably it exists as some plugin for DAW software such as Audition, Cubase, Reason etc.
Putting a bunch of sampled instruments together in a sf2 or whatever file and playing them at different pitches is not enough though: the MT-32 actually had multiple samples per instrument and played different mixtures of them depending on the pitch and effect.
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