I have an MT-32. Getting and editing the patches is not hard. A full
emulation is probably not possible because, like you said, what Roland will
give us is too limited. We would need to distribute all of the Sierra
patches, but I beleave there is a patch librarian for DOS that already has
all of the Sierra patches. I got it off of the Sierra BBS a while back. If
anyone has it, please send it to me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Because Sierra
owns the patches (not Roland) and allowed them to be distributed in that way,
I doubt there will be any problems. I made my SBAWE32 play SQ3 very well by
extracting the patches in this manner. Before I beat the game, I forgot what
I had done (it was that perfect). I'll make an MP3 demo as soon as I can.
(which could be a while, collage life is very time limiting)
Working Timidity into FreeSCI is another story. I can get the patches, but
Timidity is a stand alone MIDI player and FreeSCI will be generating a
real-time MIDI streem. It seems like a multi-threading job. We need a good
hacker. Does anybody want to do that?
Christoph Reichenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > What do we need to lock on to FreeSCI a MT-32 emulator?
>
> That depends on whether you want a complete software synthesizer with all
> of the MT-32's features, timidity running MT-32 patches, or MT-32 to GM
> mappings.
>
> Rickard did an excellent job on the MT-32 to GM mapping code, and I'm
> pretty sure it will end up in his new sound code eventually.
> Getting timidity to run MT-32 patches won't result in a precise emulation,
> besides, it's very unlikely that Roland will allow the actual patches to
> be distributed (at least that's what a german Roland representative told
> me). As for writing a complete software synthesizer: I'm not sure if we
> have all of the information we'd need for that, and we'd still have to get
> hold od the MT-32 patches (or something sounding very similar to them).
>
> llap,
> Christoph
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-Jay
