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QuickTime used SoundCanvas samples, too.

SoundCanvas samples remind me of the QuickTime Music Synthesizer on my old Mac.

And you are correct: You'll need to get the Yamaha XG software synthesizer or a Yamaha XG-compatible keyboard to take full advantage of XG-formatted MIDI files.

I wonder what SoundCanvas samples remind you of? xD

I think these XG MIDIs that I have won't play properly on a regular synth.

For the most part, I think Microsoft Wavetable GS Synth does indeed use SoundCanvas samples. Not that it matters much, since Yamaha XG is my preferred software synthesizer...

Microsoft Synthesizer uses SoundCanvas samples, right?

They'd be so scared of me, that they'd make a mad dash.

And why would that happen?

If I were a giant turtle, my cats would probably steal a car and make a mad dash for Columbus, Ohio. XD

What if you're a giant turtle?

As long as they don't bite me, I'm cool with turtles. I especially like Asian box turtles, because of their beautiful color patterns. :3
The only things keeping me from having a turtle as a pet, are the costs of healthcare for turtles, and the fact that I presently have house cats. Don't want feisty felines to win the fight against fragile box turtles, if you know what I mean.

What do you think of turtles?

*is probably the opposite, being scaly and not knowing what's going on*

*Is furry and he knows it*

Changed it to the more compatible .PNG format.

Plushies are pretty cool, although I haven't collected any since I was a kid. X3
But if I were to start collecting again, Flareon, Zoroark, Zorua, and Lucario would definitely be my first choices.

http://victoryroad.net/attachment.ph...4&d=1337572515

I doubt it'll be loading anytime soon as a bitmap.

What do you think of plushies?

Awwwwww... :3
*wants to give the Flareon a hug*

FLAREON!

Pi-KAH-chuu!

TWIG?!

ZOR?!

Wouldn't know the answer to either. X3

Let me guess. Someone traced over these art... and that person is Cat?

I wonder what would happen if I threw it into RIOT

XD I know, right?

53 MB seems to be a bit excessive for just an image XD

Aqui, señor :3
http://floatzel.net/pokemon/black-white/#zorua

...uh, where again? *is confused by the site*

Never had much faith in Microsoft, even as I use Windows 98 on my ThinkPad. That's why you'll never see an XBox 360 in my collection. Original XBox, that's another story.

As for the original Zorua art, I got 'em from Floatzel.net. I must say, the pictures on VR's sister site are so high-res, that recoloring Zorua could never have been easier. :3

Also I wonder where are the original art for these decoloured Zorua

Not that anyone would ever want to do that. Right?

I see...

One thing I have noticed is that sending the Internet Explorer 5 user agent string will cause the forums to send different styling information just to not have the width expand horribly.

Firefox 2 and IE6 are too old for today's web XD

Quite well, actually. I've found that I can check e-mail and manage my Dropbox account a little faster and much more reliably with Opera than with Firefox or IE. :3

So how does Opera 10.63 treat you on the Windows 98 computer?

Teehee

I think you might want to keep it around just in case

Rawr? :3
Yeah, I don't even use IE5 anymore on my ThinkPad, 'cuz I switched to Opera. X3

Meow

Brrrrrrrdingsingdingdingbuuuuuuuu

I still remember that

*Wonders if FM8 also isn't discontinued*
*Got tired of hearing the same old Windows 98 startup sound every time I turn on the ThinkPad, so now the PlayStation 1 startup sound is heard when I power it up*

As for FM8, seems like there's no link for it at the manufacturer's site.

Sound extractors won't be able to extract nonstandard audio codecs, though

Fun fact: some sounds are generated in DPPtHGSSBW

Yeah, the DX7's been discontinued since 1986. I wish Yamaha would reissue the DX7 like Moog had done with their latest Taurus synth bass pedals, and the Minimoog.
I always thought the GB Sounds were sampled like all the other instruments for HeartGold and SoulSilver...
It's an interesting fact that almost all of the music in DS games are MIDI-based. I know this because I've run a nameless DS ROM (for which I own a physical copy) through a sound extraction program, and I saw that, in the extracted folder, there was a "Wavesample" folder, a "Sequence" (MIDI) folder, and a "Stream" folder. Alas, I have no 3DS as of yet, so unfortunately, I'm unable to compare interpolation.
Random fact about the NES audio output: with a bit of modding, you can actually output audio in stereo.

(If you've been paying attention, you should now realize that the reason GB Sounds doesn't sound like the real deal is because of the DS's PSG shortcomings - while it has more channels, its programmability is reduced.)

As for the 3DS, not much is said about it, aside from the fact that it has dedicated audio hardware and probably does up to 24 channels. Oh, and for once, audio sample interpolation.

Listen to the System Settings music in the 3DS and the 3DS Transfer Tool music on any DSi to hear the interpolation differences and the quality improvements it brings to the table. They use the exact same music.

And finally, the DS.

16 not-quite-hardware channels (actually mixed in ARM7), capable of 8-bit, 16-bit PCM and ADPCM natively. The last eight acts also as a PSG synthesizer, 6 square and 2 noise channels. It seems to be of a simpler make than the GB/GBA PSG. Audio codecs are now actually feasible and usually output as a stream of PCM16 audio. Nonstandard ADPCM variants are also seen, as well as Ogg Vorbis. The DSi Music app can play Advanced Audio Coding files. (You know how good that is, right?)

Wow, and I'm off rambling off retro sound hardware.

The GBA brought in 2 more DPCM channels, 8-bit. Pretty much no one used them as is - mix them in software! Audio quality depends on a lot of factors, such as programmer expertise, CPU time left over, sampling rate (can go anywhere from telephone-quality to overkill 65 kHz), size of samples (stored in system RAM), maximum amount of PCM instrument channels (in the hands of amateur sound programmers, every single one takes a slice out of the CPU time available. Now, I wonder what Camelot and Square Enix later on did...)

http://victoryroad.net/album.php?albumid=509

By the way, these waveform pictures? It's actually generated from a Game Boy game. The Game Boy's PSG isn't as simplistic as the NES'.

Let me see...
The NES can only do mono output out of the box, while the GB can do hard L/C/R, per channel.
The NES has five channels - 2 square/pulse, 1 triangle, 1 pseudorandom noise, 1 DPCM. The GB, on the other hand, had 2 square/pulse/sine (can be swapped in the middle of a waveform, like the images shown), 1 does anything except can't be used as a PCM instrument channel (triangle, check, sine, check, square, check, extra harmonics, check, limited FM, check, 4-bit PCM (one-shot), check...), yet another pseudorandom noise channel, and that's it.

The GB was certainly more flexible, given that we have to stick to stock hardware. However, the Famicom's sound was expandable. We know how that went.

*discontinued?*

Might come in handy, that one.

Maybe I was exaggerating about the "couple of parameter buttons" part... anyway, here's Wikipedia's article on the DX7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7

Maybe i should look up on that. Link?

*catches both in each hand*
I use an emulator called Native Instruments FM8. I only wish I had a real DX7... I hear they're a bit complicated to program, though: only a couple parameter buttons and a value slider.

On another note, were you using a real DX7, or an emulator, or just using a sample set that's close enough?

*throws Buizel and Floatzel*

*pivots my arm upward and catches one*

*throws Zorua plushies*

The best part about the SoundCanvas Sound Set is that it's 16-bit uncompressed.

Throw in ADPCM, and we're looking at 0.82 MB. Too bad it isn't, huh?

(No wonder Microsoft Synthesizer sounds so retro - someone was being really, really conservative with the sample sizes! Windows 98's floppy mess will only get worse if they tried to squeeze in higher quality samples.)

Why thank you. :3

That certain synthesizer happens to be the legendary Yamaha DX7, which is an FM synthesizer that's almost reminiscent of the Sega Genesis. The DX7 was widely used throughout the 1980's, and probably its most recognizable sound is the electric piano, which I use quite frequently in my remixes.

That's pretty interesting about the Roland SoundCanvas, although I prefer the likes of the Yamaha XG software synthesizer. XD

Also, tons of thumbs-up for your remixes and demakes XD

I also see that you get tons of mileage from a certain synthesizer.

Microsoft Synthesizer's Sound Canvas samples are ancient at this point I think it was mostly the exact same set since, what, 1996?

"The GM.DLS file contains the Roland SoundCanvas Sound Set which is
protected under the following copyright:
Roland GS Sound Set/Microsoft (P) 1996 Roland Corporation U.S.
The Roland SoundCanvas Sound Set is licensed under Microsoft's
End User License Agreement for use with Microsoft operating
system products only. All other uses require a separate written
license from Roland."

Not to mention at 3.28 MB, there's not a whole lot to say about the sample quality. Makes you think of the memory-constrained early PCM synthesizers.

Zor~ Bui bui?

I know, right? :3

Should have been the mascot

I don't blame you. Zorua is too cute for his own good. X3

I love Zorua too much XD

Hnhnhnhn...
*Seiji attempted installing Windows 2000 on his IBM ThinkPad...*

*...But it failed.*

*Twiggy used New Signature!*

*It's super effective!*

*Twiggy ditched PHP for ASP.NET Web Pages 2.0 (Razor)!*

*Clueless programming mistakes fainted!*

I like the red version moar XD

It's not every day that you see a Zorua with black/smoke gray fur... and when you do come across one, it's like you just want to hug on it. :3

I think I'm falling in love with your recoloured versions of Zorua and co

D'awwwwwwww... :3

*hugs*

Haven't actually checked out VRIM yet... maybe I will look into it a little more when the semester's over. :3

Do you go to VRIM?

Also, http://victoryroad.net/showthread.php?t=10036

*Giggles like Zorua*

*pokes Zorua*

*Gives up on the animated mumbo-jumbo and goes with a still image, because I'm out of ideas for fixing the animation*

by the way, the animated avatar was probably not set to loop

Will do. And, in terms of Rick-Rolling you guys in legit OPL-3 style, now you know what the computer looks like.

After I get Opera installed on it, maybe I'll have to try games like MechWarrior 2 or <insert favorite Windows 95 game here>.

That old ThinkPad you have there, if you're running Windows 98,try using Opera 10.63. If it's Windows 2000, just install the latest and greatest version

Because I changed my avvy again...
Not sure why, but the animated avatar isn't looping like it's supposed to. It just plays through once, and stops at the last frame. And the weird thing is, I also uploaded it to my pixel art album, and it loops just fine.

Why am I getting a Zorua now?

Yeah, I was on just briefly to see what was going on, and then I had leave for classes... -_-;
Thank Arceus there's only one more week of this madness... and then it becomes Sparta. X3

So, for fear of sounding like a noob, how would I go about using this Visitor Message Generator mode?

I thought I saw you online just now.

I see you really, really like old technology. Way more than I do!

I think I can't get enough of my avatar, tbh.

*mashes on keyboard*

*HTML code appears*

*notes the difference between Cat's profile and my own* I see... in that case, I'd very much like to have that mode enabled on my profile. Nothing beats convenience, true? :3

See Cat333Pokémon's profile

If only I knew what that meant...

Would you like to turn on the Visitor Message Generator Mode on your profile?

Zoro will be back in a couple of weeks... that I can assure you. :3

No more Zoroark?

Lufia II - Peace of Mind/To the Future

*goes off to play the DS version*

I'm torn now

*notices that track information is somehow there in some of the tracks*

A-a-a-achooo

I think I'm getting a cold

A bad cold

Hehe

*laughs like a Zorua for no apparent reason*