Radium wrote:
On Mar 10, 3:39 pm, "Michael" wrote:
What you're doing (by your description above) is building an incredibly
basic sample-based sofsynth.
I am well aware of that. Which is why I state before, in
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...0fa1670?hl=en&
"Better yet, instead of adding that effect, I would like FM chip to be
built based on that effect. IOW, the sounds should be what they would
be like if they were only the signals that the out-of-phase signals
were in the original stereo FM chip."
Tell me something, will you?
Are you absolutely *insisting* that you must have
decades-backward-compatible hardware for a newer computer, or is it just the
precise *sounds* from the synth you like most that you're after?
Seriously. If the former is really your point here, then it's plain that
you're a fixated nutcase with nothing better to do with his time than ****
and moan about being overtaken by technological change... in which case, you
*really* should get out among humanity's great unwashed a hell of a lot more
often than you've managed since - what? - 1985?
Why the hell would *anyone* in their right mind go to tlla the trouble and
expense required to make a single chip?
Nowaday's doing that sort of thing's cheapest by *far* when done on just one
chip, but even assuming that you've already done (or paid a lot of very
expensive talentto do) the logic design and engineering for such a thing,
made your own masks and , it will *still* cost you a few million dollars to
produce the first prototype.
You *personally* now have the massive computing speed/power at your
fingertips (and more) that was available only to "supercomputers" in the
YMF262's early days (today's CPUs and audio-processors with decent software
outperform almost *all* of the early/mid 1980s home-computing hardware),
which you can easily put to use for *exactly* the same result without a
penny spent and only a few hours invested in audio capture and soundfont
programming?
What's more... if you take the trouble to do it properly, there might be a
few dozen people (hey... maybe *hundreds*!) who'd be willing to pay you for
the privilege of *using* those soundfonts so they can have the same cutesy
faux-FM sounds at their fingertips.
But do you care? I wonder.