- Roland sound canvas va vs license key#
- Roland sound canvas va vs full#
- Roland sound canvas va vs software#
- Roland sound canvas va vs trial#
- Roland sound canvas va vs Pc#
You had basically three options to run MS-DOS games in Windows 9x:ġ.
Roland sound canvas va vs Pc#
Many Origin and Westwood games supported the Sound Canvas extensions.ĬaveSoundMaster: (a side offtopic question but it came to my mind as I was thinking about all of this - if a game was DOS-only in Windows 98 you got a prompt that you need to restart the PC and if you clicked 'yes' you got auto-booted into DOS and straight into the game? Do I remember that correctly?) You could decide it yourself. So there was simply no reason to offer two separate MIDI soundtracks, one for "generic" General MIDI cards, and another for Sound Canvas.
Roland sound canvas va vs full#
If the game offered only pure General MIDI music without the Sound Canvas extensions, then Sound Canvas would still play it just fine, without using its full potential. So the music would sound somewhat flatter and more generic on a non-Sound Canvas compliant card, but it would still sound fine. If the game offered the extended Sound Canvas music, other General MIDI cards would simply omit the MIDI messages they didn't understand, like using an alternative drumset, using some reverb effect etc. Hence, I have no idea why a few games had separate options for "General MIDI" and "Sound Canvas". Time Machine please! At least I never found a game where a separate General MIDI option would sound different to a Sound Canvas/SCC-1 option (played on a SCC-1 that is fully compliant with both GS/Sound Canvas is basically a superset of General MIDI, offering some extra sounds, alternative drum sets and extra effects (reverb etc.)).
Roland sound canvas va vs software#
I guess I am never gonna get full answers without having the actual PCs and software I used then, whenever it was. Sure you can try those out also with Microsoft Wavetable Synthesis, but then you will be missing all the extra Sound Canvas extensions that those games supported.ĬaveSoundMaster: Also I have that vague memory of the General Midi option sounding worse than the Roland Sound Canvas option at some point, but I have no idea when, where, on what configuration, and is it even true.
ChoriumRevA and want to hear what Sound Canvas game music was at its best, I suggest you to try out games like:ĭune 2 (this game sounds great both with General MIDI/Sound Canvas, as well as Roland MT-32 (e.g. I used to own a Roland SCC-1 (Sound Canvas/GS) soundcard back in the day (actually I still do, but don't use it anymore.), and to my ear ChoriumRevA is like a better version of Sound Canvas. I personally like the ChoriumRevA soundfont, which I use in Windows with the Coolsoft VirtualMIDI Synth utility. Still, as suggested, you can improve that General MIDI quality even further (by quite much) by using some better GM/GS soundfont. Not a very pleasant feeling I should say.ĬaveSoundMaster: Which all in all means, I guess, that to my ear at least the Microsoft's "bad" synth is still a MUCH BETTER sounding option than Soundblaster or Adlib. And I had a feeling that they were going to show me some kind of agreement about how I my copy of software because change OS or PC id or something like that.
I had a few similar issues with Windows reinstalling and broken online dictionary software due to "wrong key", it was resolved by sending a ticket to support team, it took only 2 business days.
Roland sound canvas va vs trial#
Mind you the trial version have an expiration period and a time limit for each active session for about 10 minutes, but sometimes DOSBox and loopmidi blocked it for entire game playthrough.Īs for the DRM I have no problem with product online activation but since there is no clear indication about transfer to another device (only 1 active session of course) I have some doubts. Maybe, I checked the trial version and there were 3 options, the option for SC-55 sounded just fine for me. What I did find out that it's not actually an emulation of SC-55 but SC-8820, and while the latter does have a SC-55 compatibility mode, a bunch of instruments will sound different regardless. Alas, there doesn't seem to be any information.
Roland sound canvas va vs license key#
I'd be fine with an offline license key as long as it is transferable between computers when I update hardware. Rixasha: I tried to gather some information on this but can't seem to find out how bad it is.
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