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Re: Amiga Zorro II/III hardware music synthesizer card?
« on: November 19, 2011, 06:07:00 AM »
Sounds like the E-MU Proteus is just a wavetable synthesizer anyway, just with ROM samples. Hardly any different from hooking a separate device (MT-32 or the like) into a MIDI adapter.
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Re: Amiga Zorro II/III hardware music synthesizer card?
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2012, 11:47:11 PM »
I dunno. I'd give a pass to a wavetable board with programmable sounds, but I've never been impressed by ROM-based wavetable synths (at least none I've heard in a computer) - probably it's just that I'm soured on it by a lot of crappy wavetable MIDI setups from the late '90s. I'd be more interested in an FM or analog waveforms & filters synthesizer; I've always found that to be a much more interesting way to create sound.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"\'Legacy code\' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup