Super Jamie
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Hahaha, another sound thread!
There are so many options. The best recordings I've heard so far are the FLACs which LogicDeLuxe recorded from his actual Roland Sound Canvas hardware synth. He's also got some professional MIDI card with dual OPL3 which sounds pretty damn impressive (source).
For gameplay, I'm most happy with ZDoom's OPL synth (what is the code for that from anyway?). DOSBox is also good, though it's pretty rare that I'll play Vanilla or even DOS Boom. Despite the fact that it's possible to bit-accurately emulate the OPL3 chip the final sound is always different due to alot of factors which have been covered in other threads. There are at least 5 separately-written OPL emulation codebases out there, all of which produce different sounding output.
For Linux MIDI under PrBoom, Chocolate and Eternity I'm currently using Timidity with eawpats, though I'm always looking for something different and better. The 8M GM GS Enhanced soundfont bank is about the only other SF I'd consider using, though it really depends on what song you're listening to. Some I'd even prefer to hear through wavetable synth, E1M8 on eawpats is amazing!
I'm in the process of putting together a DOS machine (or maybe just getting an ISA motherboard for my P4 CPU) to get my old OPL3 SB16 and SB32 PnP going to see how it really sounded in the hardware I had back in the 90s.
Aliotroph? said:
I use either the emulated OPL synth or this thing plugged into Windows in place of the Microsoft synth.
What does this do? Is it anything like fmmidi? (and why are Japanese people the only ones writing realtime synth emulators?)
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08-06-09 19:10 
