Most aren't no, but the thing with synth nerds is that if they want a specific sound, they'll dive through a flaming hoop wearing a barbed wire straitjacket to make it happen.
There are 100% a few people people fucking around with old ISA cards for musical purposes
Sound fonts are effectively sample banks, a lot of earlier soundcards are basically full synthesisers just without a control panel or keys.
There will be various elements of how the operators and effects work or any nonlinearity introduced by the circuits that will not necessarily be reflected in a sound font
This is a nice blast (no pun intended) from the past. I put one of these in my first new and fully built PCs back around 1994. I had 30-pin SIMMs left over from my previous 386 that worked well in the add-on slots. That was about the coolest thing on that 486 since I went with a VLB video card and couldn't afford a CD-ROM. I think I ran with the AWE32 through several upgrades until I bought an off-the-shelf HP in 2000.
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 1y
SoundBlaster AWE32/64 was the bees knees before the invention of MP3s.
Today nobody uses MIDI, but how else are you going to play music with 8MB of RAM?
9point6@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
Musicians still use MIDI
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
That is true, but I bet they’re not doing it with a 30 year old ISA card.
9point6@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Most aren't no, but the thing with synth nerds is that if they want a specific sound, they'll dive through a flaming hoop wearing a barbed wire straitjacket to make it happen.
There are 100% a few people people fucking around with old ISA cards for musical purposes
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Why not just dump the Sound Fonts and use them in modern multitrack MIDI software?
9point6@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Sound fonts are effectively sample banks, a lot of earlier soundcards are basically full synthesisers just without a control panel or keys.
There will be various elements of how the operators and effects work or any nonlinearity introduced by the circuits that will not necessarily be reflected in a sound font
CAWright@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y
This is a nice blast (no pun intended) from the past. I put one of these in my first new and fully built PCs back around 1994. I had 30-pin SIMMs left over from my previous 386 that worked well in the add-on slots. That was about the coolest thing on that 486 since I went with a VLB video card and couldn't afford a CD-ROM. I think I ran with the AWE32 through several upgrades until I bought an off-the-shelf HP in 2000.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Sure would be nice if Creative could deliver a driver fix for my soundcard's channel swapping. Thing isn't even a decade old.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Chad Linux strikes again 💪
krafting@mamot.fr · 1 pts · 1y