where in god's name do you get one of these for a reasonable price? >ebay >$500 >OK buddy

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Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:14:10 2020 No.6555238 [Reply] [Original]

where in god's name do you get one of these for a reasonable price?

>ebay
>$500
>OK buddy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:25:59 2020 No.6555265 >>6555238 craigslist facebook marketplace thrift shops garage sales

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:39:35 2020 No.6555282 >>6555238 just emulate

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:44:17 2020 No.6555287 are you kidding? I picked one up on OfferUp for like $100 a couple months ago and even then I was overpaying because I didn't feel like being patient or bargaining.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:18:52 2020 No.6555356 >>6555238 Wtf is this piece of monkey doo doo?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:20:04 2020 No.6555359 >>6555238 thats the e-celeb tax making them so expensive

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:30:43 2020 No.6555390 >>6555282 Are you plucking this suggestion out of your ass, or has emulation for this device become accurate? 5 years ago, it wasn’t.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:45:02 2020 No.6555417 >>6555238 Yahoo auctions using an intermediary, same for most bubble era maguffins like librettos, vaios, saturns, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 21:46:26 2020 No.6555421 >>6555359 Bullshit. These fuckers were expensive before anyone on youtube was talking about them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 22:14:44 2020 No.6555452 >>6555287 LGR made a video about sound modules so now everyone needs to own one all of a sudden.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 23:17:11 2020 No.6555558 >>6555390 Munt is working fine. It's a cpu heavy process and 5 years ago not every PC could handle it.

Anonymous Sat Jun 27 23:25:59 2020 No.6555581

>>6555390
I'd assume he's talking about SCVA, in which case it's very accurate (emulation of hardware is never perfect of course, but it's pretty damn close). It doesn't have an MT-32 mode, but the SC-55 mode supports the MT-32 sound map (just like the real hardware). It's very good. Personally, I think the SC-88 Pro map sounds better for almost everything.

Just sail the high seas m80s.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 23:33:33 2020 No.6555598 >>6555238 (You) don't because (You) are an eBayby

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 23:48:30 2020 No.6555626 >>6555421 Nah. They were $100 before the nerds got to it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:02:55 2020 No.6555650 What’s this thing’s relationship to vr?

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:03:08 2020 No.6555651

>>6555238
You want to use on a old computer?
Right now i just emulate MT-32 and CM-32L using munt, or DOSBOXece and Scummvm that already have munt on them you just provide the roms.
I also use Sound Canvas VA, Edirol Hyper Canvas and Yamaha S-YXG50 Portable.
Lands of Lore with the CM-32L is almost another game:
https://files.catbox.moe/tpx29x.mp4

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:06:39 2020 No.6555656 >>6555238 Sorry, these are for rich folk and eceleb cancer only. Just emulate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:07:37 2020 No.6555657 >>6555650 Old PC games often had music options for it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:48:52 2020 No.6555751 >>6555626 Literally when. I saw them at the $300 range average back when youtube was 480p max.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 00:49:54 2020 No.6555753 >>6555657 Too bad it was nothing but shit adventure games and nothing with actual gameplay.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:18:34 2020 No.6555794 >>6555238 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpDAChzu_Y

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 01:32:10 2020 No.6555817 >>6555238 >>$500 I mean that's still cheaper than when it was brand new.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 03:29:31 2020 No.6556007 >>6555751 A year ago on German Ebay you could regularly find them for ~100-120.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 06:44:08 2020 No.6556247 Got mine for $120 on Yahoo auctions Japan

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 07:10:47 2020 No.6556270
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>>6555238
https://youtu.be/zRyPjvbDkvg
Emulation is pretty good. It is a great cheap alternative. I am thinking of saving up for a thin client powerful enough to do this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 07:15:14 2020 No.6556279 >>6556270 why haven't you built your computer yet? I have seen these pictures for years

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 07:25:32 2020 No.6556293

>>6555238
I picked up my 2nd for $90, so the problem is on your side. Never buy from shit places like ebay.

Besides that I recommend getting the superior CM-64. It's also cheaper.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1usWP5D6GAnuqVYTNCZg8Pl2Ej4qScOkz/view?usp=sharing
Better yet; get a SC-88 or SC-88 Pro, also dirt cheap these days.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 07:27:11 2020 No.6556295 lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 07:56:02 2020 No.6556335 >>6555753 Strike Commander would like to have a word with you.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 08:03:55 2020 No.6556346

>>6555238
>be music dept. nerd for all of high school
>”we’re getting rid of all the old synth hardware from the 80s, time to upgrade“
>walk out with various things including a non-headphone jack MT32
I wish I had the balls to grab the D-50 too, that ended up in a dumpster 3 months after I graduated. Also this was 12 years ago lol good luck bud

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 10:24:09 2020 No.6556547 >>6555558 Munt is very, very, very close, but not precise.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 10:29:11 2020 No.6556560 >>6555651 that's wonderful. was just playing LoL and hearing it with this sound profile is just insane

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 10:45:17 2020 No.6556576

>>6556547
between a free program which is 99% accurate (disclaimer: number extracted from rectum, but seems to be the consensus) and probably already available as part of your DOS emulator, and a maybe $500 unit along with an mpu-401 or similar to control it, i think it's obvious which is more suitable for most people
hell, most people can't even be bothered getting actual old computers to run their DOS games on
i understand the charm of using an actual beige box with a real mpu-401 and mt-32 blinking away on the side, but it's not nearly as convenient or cheap as opening an emulator, which yields essentially the same result

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 11:11:44 2020 No.6556620 >>6556576 >i understand the charm of >BUT No you don't. Everything after that was BS.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 11:18:58 2020 No.6556640 >>6556576 not the guy above me, but a cheapass USB-to-MIDI cable + DosBox/ScummVM is all you need beyond the module, which _should_ only be ~$100 at most. The investment really isn't that much for the genuine sound.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 14:15:43 2020 No.6556989 >>6555238 look on music forum and specialized shops, don't forget that before being an retro-enthusiast device it was a musician's one I got one of them there for 30€

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 14:38:47 2020 No.6557048 >>6555390 Does it matter? You only want the thing, not what it does.

Anonymous Sun Jun 28 15:09:24 2020 No.6557128

>>6556560
Just clarifying, that video is using Scummvm, so the sound effects are using the mt-32 correctly, using dosbox and munt if i choose mt32 for the sound effects they don't sound correct only the music. Here's a comparison video:
https://files.catbox.moe/lkihxq.mp4 (DOSboxECE first and them Scummvm)
Wish i knew how to solve this, there is a bunch of games that uses general midi for sound effects and i think they aren't using right.
The way i'm using the VSTi's is with savihost, don't know if that has something with it.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 11:29:12 2020 No.6559449
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>>6556279
Multiple factors have contributed towards the delay. I have attempted to consult /g/ in what may be best and most compatible to no response, since I'd want J-Win98SE instead of GNU/Linux. COVID-19 has halted shipments to my country from China. I am still looking for a modern power source with the fan on the bottom as cases of the past had the power source at the top-rear, whereas they tend to be in a shroud on the bottom now. As for a midi module, those would be better for a DOS machine, I think I would pair a SC-88 to the 98 machine since Ys Eternal comes with a SC-88 soundtrack.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 16:33:01 2020 No.6560092
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Is this the most based Roland emulator?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSk9S1bkRS8

I would really like to try this out, but I'm too lazy to get the stupid adapters, and Mint works well enough to my ears.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 16:34:51 2020 No.6560096 >>6555238 Just get the sound font and use it to play midi. Done - no emulation of hardware required.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 17:24:08 2020 No.6560194

>>6557128
Forget what i said here.
I have no idea what Scummvm is doing, checked a bunch of videos and tested the game, SOME sounds aren't like the scummvm sound the rest is all there (the chamberlain screen when the raven appears, the jingle when you get the magic atlas) i have no idea what kind of black magic scummvm is doing but if you wanna play Lands of Lore right now i recommend Scummvm version with MT-32 roms on the scummvm root folder and using the MT-32 emulator option on the audio tab (NOT the MT-32 Synth Emulator [Windows MIDI].
>>6560096
Anon i want to take a look at soundfonts, can you expand a little bit about this? I know that there is a bunch of soundfonts, a bunch of made by fans and shit, how's that work?There is some kind of rip form the original modules?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 17:36:27 2020 No.6560215 >>6560092 The only point to doing something like that is if you’re hellbent on original PC hardware but too poor for a sound module, and considering the prices 90s beige boxes sell for these days you can’t afford that either.

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 18:39:03 2020 No.6560353

>>6560194
I've been using soundfonts to tide me over.

My personal rec - GM gaming from the 90's sounds INCREDIBLE with this bad boy loaded:
https://fatboy.site/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YVq96yKGwY

Download VirtualSynth, load in the Soundfont.

You can point DosBOX at it (have to edit "midiconfig" in the .conf - run mixer /listmidi in the dosbox environment to get the right number - it's "usually" 0 for VirtualSynth) or ScummVM can directly use it as a MIDI device.

Some soundfonts were designed with classic gaming/Sierra/GeneralMidi in mind and just sound incredible (Arachnofont, Fatboy, Titanic, Musyng Kite, and kinda Timbres of Heaven), but others are over-engineered nightmares that will shit all over the original music.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 18:41:04 2020 No.6560361 >>6560215 >>6560353 Here's one that's LoL specific too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3a2e1rUDY

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 19:56:06 2020 No.6560531 >>6560353 >>6560361 Thanks anon will try.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 21:40:01 2020 No.6560773 >>6556640 >cheapass USB-to-MIDI cable those are shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 22:35:53 2020 No.6560892 >>6555753 lol didnt pretty much every DOS game support the mt32

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 22:37:34 2020 No.6560893 >>6555238 nigger just get a player piano, midi is a storage format not a listening format.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 23:50:23 2020 No.6561032 >>6560773 Sauce?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 23:59:27 2020 No.6561051 >>6561032 you need an expensive roland cable

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 01:10:23 2020 No.6561216 >>6561051 Sauce?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:03:08 2020 No.6563395 >>6555282 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:18:07 2020 No.6563437 >>6555238 There are a number of modules which give you the same authentic sound and if you do some research you'll figure them out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:23:59 2020 No.6563448 >>6556620 The "but" is not wanting pay $500 for a piece of nearly perfectly emulated, pain in the ass to actually use in real life hardware like an unwashed hoarder schizophrenic with no life skills.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:25:29 2020 No.6563454 >>6556620 >>6563448 On top of that the MT32 is actually a piece of shit outside of games, software, and MIDI files designed specifically around it. It uses the proprietary, semi-MIDI standard that sounds like shit with many of MIDIs not mindful of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 03:30:22 2020 No.6564162 >>6555452 i cashed in on the latest hipster craze and sold my rev 1 mt-32 to some retard on ebay for $250. thanks alot sucker!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 03:31:25 2020 No.6564164 >>6563454 it has to be programmed with sysex to use anything besides the built in tones. it was designed for musicians not video games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 08:04:57 2020 No.6564521 >>6563454 >>6563448 poorfag COPE the post

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 09:01:47 2020 No.6564603 >>6555238 You can get these for 50-100 on Yahoo Auctions Japan or for even less in some music gear stores.

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 09:24:36 2020 No.6564647

>>6564521
Some of us want something more modern.

As much as I'd like to hear what Pinball Dreams sounds like on an MT-32, I'd still take an SC-88 pro or a Yamaha MU-2000 or a Korg equivalent over it any day, because the majority of my games were not written for the MT-32.

Game released in 1990-1993? MT-32 is a good bet. Game released 1995-? Get something modern.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 09:26:39 2020 No.6564652 >>6564647 >As much as I'd like to hear what Pinball Dreams sounds like on an MT-32 not like much, since that game use a sample-based amiga module, not midi

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 09:43:48 2020 No.6564682 >>6564652 It has a Roland option for the sound, which I understand to be the MT-32.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 09:51:56 2020 No.6564694 >>6564682 hey you're right, it's got midi as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsueeeWO25s&list=PL_BhbJAAueZSAlMHGRReDM5Uhr_e8Obbc not as good as the mod's though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 09:53:19 2020 No.6564696 >>6564694 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMM9jWRH_vY comparison for others

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