Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Markku Kaurila Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: Re: Added music via a seq file - no drums? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:03:09 +0300 Organization: Nokia Lines: 50 Message-ID: <37E757DD.966CB592@nokia.com> References: <37E1CB00.CDDAEAC2@nokia.com> <7rtj8k$lcu5@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: nas-dhcp-88-197.trs.ntc.nokia.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (WinNT; I) Yes indeed. Thanks! What a small thing when you know it... I think that this deviation from GM standard should have been documented in the Reference Manual. Regards, Markku Alex Herbert wrote: > 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 > > > > > >