[Coco] Full Midi Synthesizer on a CoCo

[nickma2 at optusnet.com.au]

I guess before getting too hung up over pro specifications, it's
important to define the audience that would be interested in this on
the CoCo and how much they are prepared to pay.

I would think that $50 would be the top end so this may narrow the
specs we could provide.

A microcontroller could be interfaced and programmed to act as a sound
card that could be utilized by various applications... games as well
as music production.

The reason I bring this idea up is because I have been playing with my
SS/C cartridge and everything I've heard has been disappointing.
(Anyone suggest a program that uses this cart better?). I've heard the
same chipset used on other computers (some had this same/equivalent
sound chip built in as standard) and the sounds generated are miles
better. Same chip just better software driving it.

Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To:"Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>, "CoCoList for Color Computer
Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc:
Sent:Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:36:30 -0600
Subject:Re: [Coco] Full Midi Synthesizer on a CoCo

 On 2/2/2015 10:16 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
 > Jim, anything developed for midi fter 95-97 (maybe later, CRS),
probably supports GM. General Midi was introdiced to make sure all
synths supported a soundset that would play the same instruments on a
given program number no matter what synth it was written on.
 > Being a 35+ years music vet, it's been a loong time since I've seen
a non-gm synth... and I've played a lot of them. The difference from
one to the other is sound quality.
 Understood, but needing GM narrows the field quite a bit on the 
 options. I was wondering if there was an open source MIDI synthesizer

 using a small uC that held some instruments but might not be GM.
Doing 
 a small uC would move the cost and parts count down quite a bit.

 Another option is the RPi. The A+ shorter board might fit in a Coco 
 case, not sure. It would have a soft GM compliant MIDI option.

 Jim

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