Of all the people to pick... (FYI Ray Charles RIP 06/10/04)
As an aside, emulation of vintage synthesizers is getting pretty damn
good (Hammond, Clavinet, Fender, etc.) Some are direct samples, some
are emulated. Even the cheaper ones sound respectable. Of course you
did say exactly.
Piracy: The way they calculate losses makes my head spin. Sort of like
when the RIAA busted a real CD pirating operation, they claimed they
had something like 140 CD burners. Turns out the physical number of
burners was much less, but because some were considered high speed
they upped the number citing their capacity was equivalent to that
many burners. I'm sure piracy loss $ numbers factor in the expenses
involved marketing selling and supporting the additional copies of the
software, the discounts (competitive upgrades, upgrades, end-of-year
we're desperate for bottom line discounts, etc.) Then consider the
quality of software (my shiny upgrade to Macromedia Studio MX 2004 was
a CD and a license key in an otherwise empty box, now throw activation
on top of that, and the fact that the software was almost unusable
until the 7.01 patch recently released), the fact that they can set the
software cost to be whatever they want, etc. Yeah, nothing new here,
just venting.
On Jun 9, 2004, at 11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
***Stephen wrote:
What I was wondering was if there's a shortcut that would enable me to
take a game, extract all the Roland sound files from it, and convert
them directly into *.WAV files, but from what you say and from what
I've read, this isn't possible.
**
Understand that 'Roland Files' are actually plain, old MIDI files,
played on a special sound card called the Roland Sound Canvas, or SCC1
or Roland RAP 10. In most cases, the music was composed on this type
of card, because it had the best samples of it's day.
Today's sound cards all have a 'sampled sound' feature, rather than
using FM synths to play music, so the music is *pretty* close to what
you would hear if played thru an old Roland card. Just find (extract)
the MIDI from the game, and play it using your sound card, but running
in MPU-401 mode.
A good example of what I'm trying to say is this:
You can play the opening to the Ray Charles song 'What I Say' on any
organ, and it'll sound good. But it'll only sound EXACTLY like the
record if you use a classic 60's Hammond organ.
Joe
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