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Cool. The recommendation on a good d/a convertor struck me as ironic: IIRC, the MT32 has quite a grungy and noisy character.
by tgv 5y ago
Cool. The recommendation on a good d/a convertor struck me as ironic: IIRC, the MT32 has quite a grungy and noisy character.
- squarefoot 5y agoThis limitation is due to the poor implementation of the PI analog audio out; pretty much every other ARM based SBC performs much better in that field. I hope the code is portable to other ARM boards too. Although I never liked the MT-32 sound, being open to soundfonts makes this project much more interesting than the original device. Hopefully one day we'll see a bare metal synthesizer engine such as the TSynth (https://electrotechnique.cc/ https://electrotechnique.cc/), which does wonders on a small Teensy; I wonder what it could do on a much more powerful board like a PI or any other ARM board.
- boomlinde 5y agoI suppose that a good DAC is necessary to emulate the imperfections of the original, still. The audio outputs on the Pi boards aren't bad for the same reason the MT-32 output is.