/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1005467
Looking at that. Gems could make any sound you had. If what tallarico said was true for recording real time midi, if parameters had midi input as well, then it was more than capable of producing pretty much any sound you wanted period as well as sequencing it roughly real time. He doesn't specify how/if it quantizes at specific timing/rate though. But the the algorithm setting in that screenshot sets the YM2612 operator order. In fact, even with the YM2612 you can get some pretty accurate sounds for things like harps plucking.

So... yeah given that info, gems is not the reason anything was shit. These are the same available parameters gems seems to have and it's more than capable of allowing you to specify the paramters. It's more likely they had incompetent patch developers/ignorant of how FM worked or pressed for time/didn't care/actually thought it sounded good. Seriously, I can get a smooth sound of it without really knowing what I'm doing by ear fairly quickly and just tweaking around.

I almost get the impression it might be that they hired non musical people and they mucked around and thought it sounded good enough. If you let people new to synths/sequencers at a sequencer, they'll produce pretty awful things and be fairly proud until you wait them out then replay it back for them for them to realize how shit it sounds.