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@@B.ART-electro thank you for the quick reply! one more question, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to save a .RS file I have created. Is it using the 'Transfer' function?

nevermind, i figured it out after some trial and error. thank you for sharing such a great program! the sound quality compared to QasarBeach is insane.

Thank you Jilo! This is not the only PAGE-R project that is so unfinished. If you have the time and desire, you are welcome to continue working on it... drive.google.com/file/d/1_U1e6kwPp-JptSNIHoOTsnBu3J8ACG4Y/view?usp=sharing

@@B.ART-electro thank you woouoo.. but you know my brother said this for moment he have no time to read yours email .. till now. i hope to work with this for moment etc; you are the best. i hope to show you what i have in my belly-musicaly😝 soon.

@@jilomatobi2380 Don't wait any longer for your brother! An Intel Core i3-14100 PC offers sufficient emulation performance and costs only €300 if you build it yourself. However, a Ryzen 5 9600X system would be ideal...

@@B.ART-electro yes I would take the Ryzen, to be calm. thank you really. Do you have the mame cmi2x which makes hardisk noises.? THANKS

@@jilomatobi2380 drive.google.com/file/d/19tz4VlNkRl8-WJbdh4SYaw6ytX3Xw6xZ/view?usp=sharing

I used a computer whose single-thread performance is far too low for the hardware emulation of the Fairlight CMI IIx and therefore had to "tweak" the ChannelCard emulation in order to be able to play this .RS file at a constant simulation speed of 100%. As a result, not only the very short notes of the electric bass, but also the transients of ALL samples in general are not reproduced correctly...

I got the samples from here: th-cam.com/video/ul0zAXzbzYA/w-d-xo.html The names of the voices are not the originals...

Of course, the emulated Fairlight CMI IIx sounds ice-cold and clanking, since its ChannelCard lacks the typical harmonic distortion of the original's analog VCF, VCA and output amplifier. These "cutoff glitches" occur because the ChannelCard reads the waveform RAM for the pitch change at variable speed. Since no sample interpolation is used, audible aliasing artefacts occur at low playback speeds, which is typical of the old CMIs...

@jilomatobi2380 Sorry, haven't had time to reply to your last mails, but if you forward ALL the mails I sent you to your brother, he will certainly understand better which CPU's are best suited for the CMI2x...

@intheblink As I don't have the Arturia plug-in, I can't make any comparisons, but as you do, this would be the perfect task for you. Since the Arturia CMI V can't read original .RS files you have to recreate at least one PAGE-R pattern to compare sound & timing. Lots of "clean" audio files from a Fairlight CMI IIx are available here: soundcloud.com/synthroom The PSB discs used by Kirk Keyes can be found here: polygonal-moogle.com/mame/cmi_files.zip I am looking forward to the result of this comparison...

@Sergio Frias Sorry, I forgot to answer your question about my changes to the CMI2x driver. TH-cam user @JOJOZ has already been kind enough to make his Google Drive available so that the necessary files for the MAME CMI2x are finally available to others. Yesterday I copied the individual files into a shared directory: drive.google.com/file/d/1EXV-aDo_kUH7re6b2eB3QCIAnb0kQrcU/view?usp=sharing You can see the changes I have made to the driver in the file "Maximum optimisation.png"...

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@J0J0Z In this sound comparison, it is important to bear in mind that the audio output of the original Fairlight was also fed through the preamplifier of an audio interface, which led to a slightly higher saturation. In addition, with Kirk Keyes CMI IIx either not all 8 ChannelCards are the same (REV.1/2/3/4) or they are not calibrated exactly the same, which can be heard with Channel No.5 (BLUESGIT.VC). Although the filter of the SSM2045 is not yet emulated in MAME, the CMI2x already comes very close to the sound of a "real Fairlight". If the characteristics of the DBX2150 were also emulated, there would certainly be no audible difference...

​@@B.ART-electro Thanks for all the details, I much appreciate it ! I hope people will continue to improve the Mame CMI2x emulation, it really deserve it !

@@J0J0Z Your hope is justified, because I know that at least 2 people are currently working on the further development of the CMI2x. Unfortunately, however, neither of them is yet sufficiently familiar with MAME and neither of them has anywhere near as much experience, knowledge and understanding in the field of information electronics as the MAME developers. Therefore, ANY help in this regard is welcome...

@@B.ART-electro If I can, I would be happy to help, you know how much this project is important for me. I'm IT engineer (Mainframe IBM z/OS systems), but I'm not programmer at all... I can't help in this way unfortunately. It’s great news to know that some people are still working on it !

@J0J0Z It would be very helpful, for example, if you could run the test set that I offered you for download a few days ago on different CPUs. The measured values are important because the simulation speed unfortunately does not increase linearly with the single-thread performance. To do this, you would also have to run the Passmark "CPU-Single-Threaded" test on each CPU...