combatdave
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Iceland

Woohoo, my first thread on Chipmusic.org!

Anyway, I love the sound of the Megadrive (particularly the music from the first Sonic games), and I want to make something which sounds similar... I want to try to get these sounds from either LSDJ or Plogue Chipsounds, though, rather than using real hardware or some Megadrive-specific software.

Does anybody have any pointers in how I could accomplish this with one or both of those pieces of software? I'm not entirely sure what the Megadrive was capable of hardware-wise (number of channels, synth types, samples, etc), so I am not sure where to start at all. I think I hear triangle waves in a lot of Megadrive tunes, but... ???

Appreciate any help!

This is the kind of thing I'm aiming for...

calmdownkidder
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Liverpool, UK

Sound: Yamaha YM2612 5 channel FM and 1 channel FM/PCM, Texas Instruments SN76489 4 channel PSG (Programmable Sound Generator)
(from Wiki)

http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml TFM Music Maker is considered the closest to a Mega Driver tracker at the moment (afaik)

GaMEcat
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Manchester UK

yeah anything FM based really  (never liked the sound much myself but im warming to it!)
you'll not get it out of LSDJ, so your best bet is a VST plugin.  (im assuming you can load into something these since you mentioned plogue chipsounds)

http://www.geocities.jp/sam_kb/VOPM/

http://www.dontcrack.com/freeware/downl … are/DX-10/

http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/protopsg.html

Beware
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http://jiggawatt.org/muzak/xpmck/

combatdave
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Iceland

Damnit, stupid FM sad

Analog
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Ciudad de méxico, MX

some limited OPL wizardry would get you closer to that sound ? gotta  check the specs of the audio capabilities sometime soon.

EDIT:

Maybe good adlib musician could make it sound the same. Screamtracker3 comes with OPL3 and sample usage, but never got it working/too much interested tongue.

Last edited by Analog (Jul 25, 2010 2:56 am)