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From: pmiller@shell.portal.com (Paul - Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Wavetable sound
Date: 9 Aug 1994 20:47:30 GMT
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omccabe@iol.ie (Owen Mccabe) writes:
>Is there any chance somebody could upload a few seconds of the music
>from e1m1 with a SCC1 or some other wavetable card? You could use 11 khz
>and mono, which wouldnt take up too much room.
>I'd just like too see if there really is a major difference between wt
>and fm. I know there is SUPPOSED to be but I'd like to see for myself
>before forking out the money.
>BTW if you are thinking , why doesnt he just go to a store and ask for a
>demo , its because none of the stores around here have any, so I would
>have to mail-order.Thanks.
I would whole-heartedly recommend the Roland SCC-1 music card. If you're
into MIDI at all, this is a fantastic card - and I hear they just lowered
the price. I bought this card for DOOM and have never regretted it. The
sound quality is fantastic and you get over 300 Roland General Spec sounds,
which some games support (most just support General MIDI, which is only
128 instruments, and the SCC-1 handles this fine too). LucasArts supports
the SCC-1 directly, for example (the music in TIE is AMAZING!).
Believe me, DOOM is a completely different game with a real music card.
There is a big difference between "Wave" cards and true MIDI cards like the
Roland. Wave cards are usually just a bunch of samples but a Roland card
is a real synthesizer (the SCC-1 is the Sound Canvas, basically) with
reverb and other effects and other signal processing other than just
wavetable playback, including portamento.
A 11Mhz sample of one of these cards won't do it justice. See if someone
will mail you a cassette of some of the music.
>--
> Owen McCabe-Galway, Ireland
--
Paul Miller | "What EEEEZ it man!?"
Software Engineer | The opinions expressed by me do not necessarily
Elastic Reality, Inc. | reflect those of my employers.