On 08/12/2014 11:09 PM, Zbigniew wrote: > Not really: it is just _different_. Of course, it is poor as long, as > you expect it to simulate real "traditional" music instruments - but > in fact FM synthesis is a new kind of instrument on its own. Is guitar > "poor", because it's unable to pretend to be a flute (or a drum, or > anything other)?
Let's replace things in the context: we were talking about playing MIDI files. MIDI is inherently about using 'traditional' instruments, and designed on synth hardware (most of the time from Roland) that provides a full-blown orchestra on a chip. Therefore playing MIDI on anything that doesn't provide a guitar, an oboe, piano and what not, will simply sound poor. But of course it doesn't mean FM is poor by nature - I totally agree it can be used for really nice tunes. I even heard very nice music coming out of my Famicom 25 years ago. But this doesn't mean FM (or the Famicom) won't sound poor when trying to play actual MIDI data. I see however that I should have been more careful in choosing words. Instead of saying "Of course FM quality is poor" I should have said "Of course FM quality is poor when used with MIDI files", to avoid any misunderstanding. cheers, Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
