I always have to play this anytime I install a new SB16 card. Used to have a video of this demo up on my channel years ago but took it down for some reason. Thanks for sharing!
My first sound card was the SB16 CT1750 MCD that came with the SoundBlaster Discovery CD 16 Multimedia Kit, and I played this demo so much, fantastic sound all around, even decades later, 2024 and beyond...
This was part of my childhood as a young computer wizard around 1993 to 1995. I still have the SB16 sound card we used in our Gateway 2000 (the metal case of which we had to get rid of around 2012). It's sitting in the docking station of my NEC Versa 4050C laptop. Been using it to put together some tunes for the Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure mod I've been working on.
Hearing this for the first time since i was a child had about the same effect on me that a carefully intoned sequence of random words might have on your average sleeper agent.
Singapore, what happened?! you once embraced the world with crazy simple ideas that worked, like that SoundBlaster QWERTY+Piano keyboard and the crazy ass cool demonstrator.😂😂
I am still looking for a cool demo demo soundtrack that came with the first SB I had. The name _T Demo_ was displayed and you could also mix it while playing.
4 years later, did you ever find that demo song? I think about one of those that came with my first soundcard sometimes, but haven't had any luck finding it online. Maybe because my card was an off-brand. But it had the parrot, I remember that. The demo track was really neat too: kinda sci-fi/epic style
The DX7 can assign up to 6 operators to all of their 16 channels but the OPL3 chip can only assign up to 2 operator FM for 18 channels in basic mode. It can also assign 12 2-operator channels into 6 4-operator channels, but that only leaves you with that and 6 2-operator channels for a total of 12 channels. It also has a percussion mode, but that sacrifices 3 2-operator channels into 5 percussion channels. You could also combine these modes as well, like the 4-operator setting I talked about earlier, but if you turn the 4-operator setting and the percussion setting both on, you’ll now have only 3 2-operator channels, but in exchange, you’ll have 6 4-operator channels and 5 percussion channels. Unfortunately most software that supported OPL3 compatible sound chips stuck to basic mode, and was more commonly used to emulate OPL2 sound.
@@nic0vide0 This was very interesting to find out! I have wanted to know how the DX7 vs. the Yamaha OPL3 compares to the OPL2. Similar sounds, but from your analysis and information, the OPL3 and OPL2 architecture is much more limited than what the DX7 can do, even with similar sounding waveforms.
I always have to play this anytime I install a new SB16 card. Used to have a video of this demo up on my channel years ago but took it down for some reason. Thanks for sharing!
+Lazy Game Reviews I always played canyon.mid in Windows 3.1, an awesomely bland elevator tune, though it did mean the SB worked nicely.
Nowadays I use canyon.mid on just about everything, including virtual machines.
This was basically home theater surround sound back then
My first sound card. I played Doom with literally no sound, not even the PC speaker. Hearing the music and the sound effects was a revelation.
Same brother...same
Just found a SB16 in the trash, brought it home, plugged to my Retro XT...and Boom. Quality sound for my DOS games...Amazing!!!
My first sound card was the SB16 CT1750 MCD that came with the SoundBlaster Discovery CD 16 Multimedia Kit, and I played this demo so much, fantastic sound all around, even decades later, 2024 and beyond...
This was part of my childhood as a young computer wizard around 1993 to 1995. I still have the SB16 sound card we used in our Gateway 2000 (the metal case of which we had to get rid of around 2012). It's sitting in the docking station of my NEC Versa 4050C laptop. Been using it to put together some tunes for the Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure mod I've been working on.
Did the case being to rust?
Hits me right in the nostalgia. Hard.
Hearing this for the first time since i was a child had about the same effect on me that a carefully intoned sequence of random words might have on your average sleeper agent.
I subbed!
Listening to this demo with a sound blaster in 2024 :)
A wormhole to the 90's!!
Hello from the DOS game Blinky 2, which uses this song in one of its stages
I love it..have it, and the PRO and the AWE32...they rocks.
Thanks for posting!
Singapore, what happened?! you once embraced the world with crazy simple ideas that worked, like that SoundBlaster QWERTY+Piano keyboard and the crazy ass cool demonstrator.😂😂
good ol days
I am still looking for a cool demo demo soundtrack that came with the first SB I had. The name _T Demo_ was displayed and you could also mix it while playing.
4 years later, did you ever find that demo song?
I think about one of those that came with my first soundcard sometimes, but haven't had any luck finding it online. Maybe because my card was an off-brand. But it had the parrot, I remember that. The demo track was really neat too: kinda sci-fi/epic style
I bought one of this almost 20 years ago.
cool!
this is soundblaster 16 very excellent.
Great. Thanks!
I know I've seen this before, but it's a very hazy memory ^^
Funny thing... i just remembered this demo when watching the opening of "Stranger Things" from Netflix... =D
Sounds a lot like a Yamaha DX7. Probably had the OPL-3 synth in it.
DX7 uses FM synthesis as well, but it is quite a bit more sophisticated than an OPL3.
The DX7 can assign up to 6 operators to all of their 16 channels but the OPL3 chip can only assign up to 2 operator FM for 18 channels in basic mode. It can also assign 12 2-operator channels into 6 4-operator channels, but that only leaves you with that and 6 2-operator channels for a total of 12 channels. It also has a percussion mode, but that sacrifices 3 2-operator channels into 5 percussion channels. You could also combine these modes as well, like the 4-operator setting I talked about earlier, but if you turn the 4-operator setting and the percussion setting both on, you’ll now have only 3 2-operator channels, but in exchange, you’ll have 6 4-operator channels and 5 percussion channels. Unfortunately most software that supported OPL3 compatible sound chips stuck to basic mode, and was more commonly used to emulate OPL2 sound.
@@nic0vide0 This was very interesting to find out! I have wanted to know how the DX7 vs. the Yamaha OPL3 compares to the OPL2. Similar sounds, but from your analysis and information, the OPL3 and OPL2 architecture is much more limited than what the DX7 can do, even with similar sounding waveforms.
no shit