if you can sample that thing and throw it into piggy that might be a solution ovenrake. that has been the closest i have came to true FM composition and playback.
]]>If you want a machine that you can make complete FM chiptunes with, then the Yamaha CX5M - with the software available - is not the best option. I've heard some amazing tracks made with the Moonsound cart Linde mentions. If you want some accessible FM synth operation (potentially MIDI controllable with later models), then a CX5M with the voicing cartridge is great fun...but this is a chipmusic forum, so why would anyone want that?
]]>Any other tips, suggestions? hopefully advice that doesn't end in "get another msx".
]]>I'd love to try to decipher MDX documents, though. I wonder what the X68000s go for in Japan.
x68000s have become something of a collectors item in Japan, the vintage computerstores have been picked over many times. I have only ever seen one I a store once and it wasn't on sale, just a display model. They are also pretty heavy so shipping one may well be almost as much as the machine if not more. I think they were pretty much the machines to have for arcade ports, capcom used them as dev machines I think? And as alex mentioned, the chip is very very similar to the fb01.
g0org.biz has alot of interesting x68k stuff if you dig around a bit, it's a Japanese site but the music isneady to find
]]>ah... perhaps you are correct... anyhow... it appears XPMCK may at some point support MDX output... if so... then this is probably the easiest way to do it (without learning japanese etc)
]]>I'd love to try to decipher MDX documents, though. I wonder what the X68000s go for in Japan.
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i just read the description... from the looks of things the cx5 was probably only used as a sequencer... so... thats completely boring my friend - anyhow i think the sharp x68000 seems far more interesting than the cx5m (same fm chip)... and perhaps we can translate some MDX documentation and use it - what do ya say?
Besides being a cool concept and looking very Darth Vadery, I don't find the CX5 that interesting. You can certainly get most other MSX computers cheaper (and with more RAM) and use them together with an FM-PAC (more distinct lo-fi FM sound, grea software support) or a Moonsound cartridge (shitload of FM channels + shitload of wave table channels + effect DSP).
]]>PS: @ Lazerbeat: You're just bitter. :-P
]]>Although actually useful information shocker. I have a feeling Note! used one of these machines?
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