by Rachael » Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:06 am
I am going to have to agree with Graf on this one.
If people *really* did not like inferior synths (hardware, software, or otherwise) - no one would go for the OPL option in DOSBox or GZDoom. Yet, it's what sounds most nostalgic, evoking memories of crappy cheap-ass FM synths on our quite popular at the time and wide-spread Sound Blaster cards, even if that era only lasted about a decade or so, and the same thing could easily happen with FluidSynth. Besides, there's nothing stopping a person from creating a FluidSynth-compatible library to drop in its place, since it's a .dll anyway.
I am going to have to agree with Graf on this one.
If people *really* did not like inferior synths (hardware, software, or otherwise) - no one would go for the OPL option in DOSBox or GZDoom. Yet, it's what sounds most nostalgic, evoking memories of crappy cheap-ass FM synths on our quite popular at the time and wide-spread Sound Blaster cards, even if that era only lasted about a decade or so, and the same thing could easily happen with FluidSynth. Besides, there's nothing stopping a person from creating a FluidSynth-compatible library to drop in its place, since it's a .dll anyway.