Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

On 9 Oct 01, at 16:04, Furman, Jon W. wrote:

> Hey Max don't make me laugh so hard while I'm at work!! Security just came
> up here to try and escort me out of the building.
> 
> Actually some DOS programmers way way back in the day were able to program
> decent sound sets for the FM on the original soundblaster, but this was
> very rare. I remember the original Dune PC game (the Virgin one) as having
> a very good SB FM soundtrack, and there were a few others out there that
> weren't but so bad. What really totally killed FM on the SB was the
> default GM soundset that came with Windows 3.1, it was awful and was not
> improved in Win95 or after either. Invariably every Win game or program
> that used midi tried to use the default Windows GM which used this awful
> soundset. I don't even think that you could change the FM soundset in
> windows if you wanted to. I think that this soundset is what everyone
> thinks of when they think of SB FM. I actually remember running my SB
> through my stereo and turning up some of those old DOS games they sounded
> so cool. Oh well those were the days...      
> 
The standard GM set used only 2 operators of the FM-chip. 
Software like KeyWest (which was included with a Commodore 
mini Midi-keyboard) was able to use all 4 operators and that was a 
big improvement. Only drums were weak.
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