timofonic

There are a OPL3 module for midibox, why not OPL4? OPL4 sounds a lot better than OPL3 and has a lot of great stuff on it... OPL4 (YMF-278B-F) can be found on many old (generally ISA) professional cards (by example: some mirosound ones). Even there was designed a sound card for a 8bit z80-based computer named MSX, moonsound (http://www.faq.msxnet.org/opl4.html) that actually can be buyed by reserve and waiting some time (a few months... it depends on how many people reserved it) at 170 EUR aprox. (the price can change, this is the recent one). Since there are OPL3 module, probably it can be really easy to support it, I like a lot how sounds the OPL4 chip! ;) OPL4 rule!

About time, I have a lot of that, the problem is that I'm technically clueless... I want to learn a lot of stuff, and probably a lot of time (probably years or never) when I can do something like that...

What do you mean with Csound? This/?

Maybe too stupid question but... what about using small parts of cdaudio like samples for midi?

It's possible play various at once (each one in a different sid chip)? What about those SID files that aren't standard and add some features (and can be only played by some sid emulators, not original hardware)?

TK: Any news about this? What about hires using bigger pic? What about colour? What about VGA?

Hello, I'm really amazed with this giant and complete project, for me it seems a lot better than a lot commercial synth hardware I know! I'm technically clueless but I was seen that snes has the audio stuff in a module, very independient, that when it's used, it seems not uses the CPU, that's why it was "easy to do this: http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/snes_apu/snes_apu_en.php (connecting a snes-apu to parallel for sending it the songs and play it...) Even you can add sp/dif output, it's described for snes, but since you get the signals from the SNES APU, you can use it too: http://alpha-ii.com/Info/snes-spdif.html Personally, I think that is very probably easy to do an MIDIBOX SNES-APU, sorry if don't (I'm very newbie about this) Look at this pretty sound piece of hardware: http://einsteinsbreakfast.com/images/snespics/spc700.jpg Best regards,