FM Synth vs MIDI

[SuperDeadite]

Gradius II and Detana Twinbee do as well.  Which will come eventually.

[esteban]

HOLY CANOLI, I haven't listened to this yet. I gotta check it out...

...to be continued...

[SuperDeadite]

Battle 3:  FINAL FIGHT (MT-32)

[esteban]

Battle 3:  FINAL FIGHT (MT-32)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP0j2zbXek4&feature=youtu.be

More tunes to listen to tonight when I'm working!

[Ji-L87]

I think MIDI wins this round. Could've sounded sharper in some places though. The intro-song will have to be my MIDI-favorite.

[RegalSin]

We had everything, in the 1980's. We are going to die and nobody will ever know how auwsome life sounded. We havent moved foward, we have moved backwards in time. Dammit this music is auwsome, whatever happened to our world. I bet everybody had their own theme music as well. Life was that auwsome, you know.

They are all PSG music, right? All programmed either threw keyboards, trackers, or some other source.

[Arkhan]

They are all PSG music, right? All programmed either threw keyboards, trackers, or some other source.

MIDI != PSG.  Dumbass.

[RegalSin]

Then what is FM, genius?

[Tatsujin]

MIDI = pure electronic data (nothing inside, no sound inside, no character, only pure data for later claculations, like digital notes).
FM = Frequency Modulation [FM synthesis] (e.g. a carrier-waveform signal modulated by another sine wave, which gives the music a special harmonic characteristic).
PSG = Prorammable Sound Generator (simple sines, rectangles, sawtooth, mixed over each other, back coupled etc. stuff of sounds).

[RegalSin]

Okay I am sorta getting this.

The PSG/FM are written/performed the same exact way.  Both are hardware dependent, and can be written
in txt, Electronic instrument input, or tracker that is supported by the hardware physically or virtually.

Question? How many PSG out their are in fact modulators that osculates frequencies? That would be hardwire. Some of the PSG on the PCE sounds good as FM sound.

MIDI is also created like PSG/FM music but it is the notes stand alone. Meaning any hardware should be able to play it, with the correct instruments. This allows for flexablitiy cross platform. The PCE for example could  use a MIDI box, just as regular computers did. We could also assume the PCE could also play MIDI, with the right instruments in memory.

[SuperDeadite]

Battle 3.5:  Naious

Not a real battle, as this game is FM only.  No MIDI here, just a badass FM soundtrack
so good I had to upload it for the greater good of the universe!

[Ji-L87]

Sweet drums! The song from 5:40~ has a great melody but could really use a more defined bass-line...feels almost like two different tracks playing on top of each other :p Most other tracks are really great tho'. The track from 20:38 reminds me a bit of this but sped up.

[esteban]

Battle 3.5:  Naious

Not a real battle, as this game is FM only.  No MIDI here, just a badass FM soundtrack
so good I had to upload it for the greater good of the universe!

I loved watching the video you made. I never heard of this game before (duh!) and I think you have to send mp3's to me.

Oh, and I hate watching videos like this because I feel like I am missing out on so many shoot-em-ups.

[Tatsujin]

The best, and still not implemented

[HercTNT]

back in the day emulators like iwin and pasofami used instrument samples to create sound because they did not know how to emulate the nes sound yet. I have to say the result was pretty wild. it was very strange to here a drum thump or guitar twang in place of explosions or guns etc..