On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> > If you mean you type text and the MSX can speech it for you... yes. there
> > was one made for MSX. It has a French accent though.
>
> This is only a simple program that plays the right samples at the right time
> on the Philips Music MOdule ADPCM output.
I'd very much like to hear this program, as I have to add sample RAM to my
Toshiba MSX-Audio in order to use ADPCM. Is it archived anywhere?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >Also, the Yamaha CX5M had BASIC commands for speech synthesis. It
> >worked pretty good (even with the japanese accent), as far as I
> >remember it. (I used to have one) You could change the speed,
> >intonation and tone height. I think it was a feature of the SFG01/05
> >modules though, not CX5M specific.
>
> It does?? I have a CX5M... Can someone tell me how to do this? I'd like to try
> that... (I have no docs with my CX5M.... Please, if you have a manual or
> something, scan it and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]! :-)
This is news to me, although MSX-Audio does have a speech synthesis mode.
It was taken out of MSX-Music and I don't think the YM2151 OPM ever had a
CSM mode. (composite sinusoidal modelling)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >To dump the ROM I'll have to desolder it first. I am prepared to do
> >this, however, as it will allow me to install an SFG-05 ROM (burnt
> >onto an EPROM) into the SFG-01, and see whether the disk and MIDI
> >functionality is there. There is a chance this won't work, as the
> >SFG-01 and SFG-05 have different FM chips.
>
> Is that so? What is the difference exactly? (In specs?)
> I thought only the ROM was different (indeed, the MIDI and disk
> functionality...)
> I am a happy CX5M + SFG-05 owner... ;-)
SFG-01 has a YM2151 OPM chip. The datasheet is on msx2.com now, after I
sent it to the administrator. SFG-05 has a YM2164 OPP chip. I'm guessing
this is downwards-compatible with the OPM although I haven't tested this
yet. I think it has extra waveforms, similar to the difference between
YM3526 OPL (FM part of MSX-Audio) and YM3812 OPL2. YM2413 OPLL was derived
from OPL2, incidently.
Richard
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