#Roland sound canvas sc 88 update
#Roland sound canvas sc 88 plus

The top-left is the 88PвЂ™s display, the text below it is every MIDI message (displayed by Bawami, my own MIDI soft-synth), and the background is a view of most of the notes (top part вЂ“ unfortunately, I couldnвЂ™t capture the view of all 128 MIDI notes) and all control changes (bottom part). If you like it, please check their other stuff.

I actually started this in August 2014, got it about 40% done and then lost motivation, and finished it off in the last week. I tried to remake my favourite liquid dubstep song for the ever-aging Roland SC-88Pro synth (18 this year!), complete with fancy percussion and a reversed piano effect, because I wanted a challenge. Posted in Games, Music, Videos | No Comments В» Originally, I was going to use a synth trumpet sound to really match the original, but I couldnвЂ™t find a suitable FM-style harpsichord to go along with it, and synth trumpets sounded stupidly out-of-place when paired with the realistic harpsichord, so I had to go for modern-sounding brass instruments.

IвЂ™ve seen some remixes of this, but I tried to stay faithful to the original (including overlapping notes, monophonic channels and notes that get cut because of the limitations of the AdLib hardware). It used AdLib music (technically, the Yamaha OPL2 FM synth). It was released on many different platforms, and IвЂ™m sure the instruments vary a lot on the different versions, but IвЂ™ve only ever played the DOS version. This is a remake of the music from the DOS version of the game вЂњDizzy: Prince of the YolkfolkвЂќ. And the first that messes around with time signatures to keep in-sync with the original while still having the notes align sensibly in my MIDI editorвЂ¦ ItвЂ™s the first MIDI IвЂ™ve made in less than 18 hours (including sleep)! ItвЂ™s also the first IвЂ™ve made for the 88P which doesnвЂ™t use all the sound channels (4 are untouched), despite using 3 just for trying to emulate the FM snare. I had a burst of nostalgia and got this theme stuck in my head, so I decided to try to remake it for the SC-88Pro synth. вЂњYOU MAGGOTS ARE HUFFING AND PUFFINGвЂ“вЂќ oh wait, wrong English-teaching mahou shoujo. Somehow, the fact that an anime of Moetan had been made eluded me for 8 years and I only recently discovered it. Lowering release times only gets you so far. I kind of wish I could limit it to playing only 32 voices at once, instead of letting it struggle with 64. The case doesnвЂ™t really get very hot, though. In that case, maybe I could attach a heat sink to the CPU, or just put a fan in there (I donвЂ™t really want to drill holes, though). It might just be a coincidence, but it seemed to handle it better immediately after power-up, so perhaps it becomes worse as it gets hotter. I kind of wonder if itвЂ™s just my 88P which slows down so much when many notes are playing (even if there are not many MIDI messsages), or if itвЂ™s simply a limitation of its CPU speed.

#Roland sound canvas sc 88 update

Also, 4 sound effects IвЂ™ve never used before!ДЈ channels get re-used for different instruments (16 channels has never been so insufficient), but more annoyingly, the synthвЂ™s update speed drops really low during the chorus because of all the playing voices, making pitch-bends sound jumpy, and it took a lot of tweaking and quite some luck to get a clean recording.

It sounded like it was nearly finished after 2 days, but the hardest stuff was still left to do at that point (I do hate struggling to transcribe barely-audible parts, but they really fill in the gaps and make it sound complete).ДЇirsts for me include the fast arpeggio effect (surprisingly, the 88P never complained about this), wah effect on the quiet guitar (on the right), and gratuitous use of вЂњAll Sound OffвЂќ whenever possible, to try to keep things running quickly enough.

#Roland sound canvas sc 88 plus

This MIDI took me about 5 days to make, plus a few hours of tweaking at the end. And hey, why not 60FPS for those who can view that? =) MIDITrailвЂ™s fancy 3D view is good for notes, but doesnвЂ™t show any control changes, so I included a scrolling view of those, too, next to the synthвЂ™s display. HereвЂ™s the Roland SC-88Pro synth being pushed quite hard by the power of moe (ending theme of the anime Moetan, вЂњSkip!вЂќ, originally sung by Nomico, to my surprise).

Roland sound canvas sc-88