Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Alex Herbert" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: Re: Added music via a seq file - no drums? Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:29:35 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 43 Message-ID: <7rtj8k$lcu5@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <37E1CB00.CDDAEAC2@nokia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.56.122.194 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 The supplied GM Vab does not fully conform with the GM standard. For drums to play, you need to insert a program change (program 128) at the beginning of your drum track. Also, the GM Vab will never sound as good as a Sound Canvas because the PS's SRAM is much smaller than the SC's wave ROM, and many of the sounds are duplicated/missing. The best thing I can suggest is to sample each of the Sound Canvas's sounds which you are using and build a Vab containing only those sounds, and therefore not waste precious SRAM on sounds which never get used. The other thing to consider is that GM synths (such as the Sound Canvas) tend to have the reverb/chorus effects switched on as default. This is something which needs to be enabled manually on the NY and eats even more SRAM. The quality of PS's effects are no match for those found on the Sound Canvas. Hope this helps. Herbs Markku Kaurila wrote in message news:37E1CB00.CDDAEAC2@nokia.com... > Hi, > > I tried to add music to my game. I converted a smf file to a seq file > with smf2seq utility application. When this seq file was playing in my > game the drums were missing??!! I checked with a sequencer program that > the dums were assigned to channel 10 as they should. Has anyone > experienced anything similar? What am I doing wrong? The music sounds > also a > little muddy compared to when I play it through a Roland Sound > Canvas. The balance isn't right eather. The melody can bearly be heard > although > with Sound Canvas the balance is correct. > > Regards, > Markku Kaurila > > >