#1910 closed defect (worksforme)
LOOM: Overture sounds awful with MT-32 emulator
| Reported by: | SF/gschmidl | Owned by: | lordhoto |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Loom |
Description
With the MT-32 ROMs, both in emulation and real MT-32 mode, the first minute or so of the Loom overture (from the MT-32 patch provided by LucasArts) is distorted and sounds nothing like it should. Then, suddenly, it starts working fine. Using native Win32 MIDI, the overture plays normally.
Ticket imported from: #1110744. Ticket imported from: bugs/1910.
Change History (13)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Summary: | Overture plays wrong with MT-32 → LOOM: Overture plays wrong with MT-32 |
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comment:3 by , 20 years ago
Sounds fine to me using the built-in MT-32 emulation code in Win32 0.8.0 CVS Feb 20 2005 11:25:04 daily build.
comment:4 by , 20 years ago
I listened again with the latest build -- if you pay attention to the rising and falling tone that plays almost immediately, it changes speed almost randomly. I am not talking about the normal intro, by the way, but the overture you get with the patch from Lucasarts.
comment:5 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:6 by , 20 years ago
Kingguppy, maybe you have an idea on this one? Feel free to unassign / reassign to jamieson :-)
comment:7 by , 20 years ago
This is specific to the MT-32 emulation, not actual playback using a real MT-32. I think this is what the author of this report was trying to clarify. If you play the extended Fatman overture using MT-32 emulation, notes are missing altogether and most instruments sound off-key. This will likely be fixed as the MT-32 itself progresses, but is not due to any fault in the imuse/midi parsing code.
comment:8 by , 20 years ago
"as the MT-32 emulation progresses", that should have said. Obviously, the MT-32 itself has not 'progressed' in over 15 years :)
comment:9 by , 20 years ago
| Summary: | LOOM: Overture plays wrong with MT-32 → LOOM: Overture sounds awful with MT-32 emulator |
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comment:10 by , 20 years ago
I'm not entirely sure what the original reporter meant, but I'm assuming that "in emulation and real mode" means "with and without 'True Roland MT-32 (Disable GM emulation)' selected".
tbcarey's right, this is a Munt issue, and it will improve as we work on the accuracy of the emulator. I'll leave the bug open here anyway
comment:11 by , 20 years ago
tbcarey is correct -- not having an MT-32, I can only compare it to a) the other MT-32 emulator out there that works as a Windows device driver and b) native Windows MIDI. In ScummVM's MT-32 emulation mode, the music plays wrong; in native Windows MIDI, it does not.
comment:12 by , 13 years ago
As far as I can tell it works nowadays with the latest build from master (3e47203d645b24b8d94cb2ac742072764e49ef04), probably it got fixed when we switched to the new Munt code.
Closing as works for me.
comment:13 by , 13 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Resolution: | → worksforme |
| Status: | new → closed |
Forgot to add: this is ScummVM 0.8.0CVS (Dec 29 2004 16:00:22) with Vorbis/FLAC/MP3/zLib/MPEG2 on Windows 2000.