This video made me realise two things: 1. I think I actually prefer the General Midi rendition of Canyon 2. You seem to effortlessly produce beautiful shots. Even the shortest cutaway is always beautifully composed. You've gotten to the point where I as a viewer don't even notice just how well composed and put together every video really is, because you've found your "look" and everything just melds together seamlessly. Your videos are always a joy to watch and a high-point of the week.
I just love the absence of yellowing on these devices. Usually mixing a bunch diferent retro computer hardware results in a discordant mish-mash of beiges, yellows and tans. But in this setup of yours, it all just looks pristine.
Even though modern PCs are far more pleasant to build and use, I have a soft spot for 90s PCs. Thumbing through Computer Shopper with it's adverts for clip art, dragging the crt monitor to LAN parties, the deafening sound of a dot matrix printer, the whooomp-click of de-gausing a monitor, cleaning mouse balls, memory managers, fan fold printer paper.....! Aaaaahhh! Those were the days!
Just last year I discovered how pleasant it can be to to proper cable management with those old ribbon cables. Yes I do have a bunch of round cables, but the flat ones can basically be folded and fit through the slimmest gaps. I don't want back the back breaking weight of CRTs or fondling mouse balls, but I do enjoy the POST beep of a proper speaker, reaction times of CRTs and somehow even managing base memory in DOS.
Just wanted to say thanks, Clint! Your MIDI tower video actually inspired me to hunt down an SC-88 for gaming and I've actually been using it a lot for music production. Wouldn't have done that without your videos!
@@incumbentvinyl9291 You're quite right about the arrow keys, I guess I've just been corrupted by consoles. As for keybindings... most sourceports I know of default to the now-standard WASD setup with mouselook by default.
Not sure if you're interested in someone else talking about it, but I have an entire video series on my channel called Sound Profile that's focused entirely on that. I've covered most Sound Canvas models, the MT-32, the Yamaha MU series, the Roland JV/XV/XP synths, the Korg Trinity, Korg NS5R/NX5R, and soon enough, the Roland JD-990 and SD-90!
It's weird to say, but whenever I hear music from this era being played through a Roland, it always sounds wrong to me--because whenever I was hearing that music back in the day it would be through the FM synthesis on a Soundblaster card!
At the time I distinctly remember preferring my Gus Ultrasound or Soundblaster over MIDI, so I don't think it's just nostalgia. That old General MIDI sample set sounds just as clinical and boring to me now as it did back then.
I know the feeling, @d2factotum . We had an actual Sound Blaster 16 in our old 486 machine, and that sound still defines 90s DOS games to me. The Sound Canvas sounds _too_ good!
Coming from using an Amiga with decent sound capabilities for games to my first 486 with a SB2.0 I just assumed all PC MIDI sounded like absolute trash. It wasn't until years later that I realized it could sound decent, but only if you had the right (expensive) hardware.
Swedish fan from 92. You are THE Best. I Love watching your vidios. Make me warm inside when i see all thes nice things from before and some things that i played when i whas a kid :)
The best part of my more-than-tedious workday is taking a moment to relax and get a nice dose of LGR. Thanks for the quality content, Clint. I need to get off of my butt, hunt down a Roland module and tracker my little heart out.
Overall great video, Clint! I can't help but notice all the detail you've put into it. There's so much love and care in the way you present everything. I've often wondered if the fully featured models got any real use in studios--they are certainly presented that way.
I just wanted to say thank you, LGR. For making these videos and for educating everyone on these otherwise forgotten devices! It's nice to come home from a long night shift in the ER and watch some of your videos to relax and learn. Again, thank you so much, keep doing what you're doing!
Even the FM synthesis on Descent 1&2 was very good, you know given the synth soundtrack and all. I mostly played on a 16-bit Pro Audio Spectrum with the same OPL3 chip as the SB16 and Adlib Gold back in the day and it sounds impressive.
As it was cheap and available in my country I went for a Casio GZ-50M which does very much the same thing but in a package that looks like an external amiga drive case, which I like. A lot. Thanks for the midi love Clint.
Roland.. Best 90s music hardware period!.. Love these and how they sound.. I could no way ever afford these back then... Thanks for taking me back Clint! .
No lie, I was just earlier today thinking about how much I always enjoy your videos about MIDI, and - lo and behold - a new one get thrown up! Perfect!
@@TechnicolorMammoth It's unrelated to the MIDI Mountain, that's another beast entirely :) I just have more than one SC-55 mkII so there's one in each setup, heh.
Beautiful video. Midi music still fascinates me. These are classic music tracks and great Sound Canvas instruments. Thanks to you in a few minutes great nostalgia and return to younger years.
I’d love to know how many people actually owned these MIDI devices back in the day... In my circle of friends that had PC’s in the early 90’s, (about 5 of us...) it was a big enough spend to finally get a Sound Blaster. I don’t think any of us even knew what these Roland MIDI devices were! I never fully understood what they were until recently. I don’t remember them advertised or seeing them in stores... And at those prices, nobody I knew would have been buying them if we did.
Yeah....not once have I ever seen one of these in the wild. Not in the 90's/2000's, not ever. Even my dorky ass uncle who worked at best buy and lived in front of his PC didn't have one, and he had EVERYTHING! 😂
Great video again Clint! Gained additional info on MIDI equipment thru this video! Looking forward to the next one! More power and God bless from the Philippines!
Heh, I always wanted an SC-88, but had to settle for an SC-55mkII the school had, and the band teacher let me borrow for quite a while (like a couple of years). Never used it for games though, but rather for generally better midi synthesis. I was really into sequencing music from sheet music into midi and then playing it back. Ah the things I wasted my youth doing... When I actually had to return the SC-55mkII back to the school, I really missed it, but they were freakishly expensive back then, so I could never justify getting one (and high speed internet was just starting to be a thing - there was no e-bay yet). I used to stare at the pictures longingly in the Roland (later Edirol) catalog.
I have already worked out that sounds like the alto saxophone are in fact the same samples from the likes of the Roland S-550, U-110 and U-220. But the SC-88 Pro uses many remastered versions of those same samples but with slightly more nuance like breathe noise and even different velocity expressions like growls as GS variations. This is still the one of the best saxophone sounds you can get out of a sound module and still just as useable in modern music productions ( you can really enhance the sound with EQ and reverb ).
Well hello there, this little sucker is going to be my afternoon nap video.. Afternoon naps are good. Update: I went driving instead of napping. Driving is also good.
This generation will never know the greatness of that go to midi song. I never even had midi, and still went in every once in a while and just listened to it.
Oh my God, I love Raptor so friggin' much. I grew up with it as a kid and have so many fond memories of me and my cousins staying up late trying different weapons and trying to beat it in general. The music and gameplay were so amazing.
Amazing how decades old audio technology can hold up for such a long, it just feels so authentic in listening, also Waves of nostalgia all over the place for me
Man, hearing the MT-32 difference for the first time is what made me want to build a DOS machine. I either heard Monkey Island 1 or Police Quest 2. Being from a small Eastern European country I had no hope of finding such a device locally, but after some serious asking around second hand music equipment stores, a guy connected me with a friend of his, who had an MT-32. A year or so later I was lucky again, when a similar situation occurred and I got an SC-55. I've been using them for about 6 years now and couldn't be happier.
I know lots of composers were working with Roland, but after seeing your previous MIDI synth shootout I realized I just really like the way Yamaha sounds. I have an MU80 now :)
This entire channel is amazing to the point where if I'm drinking on a Friday night and I see a new upload, I throw it in my bookmarks toolbar between all my most visited websites and label it "LGR NEW VIDEO" so I know it's there when I wake up. Can't waste a new LGR video on a drunken viewing. See you in like twelve hours.
I didn't know Roland MT-32 or SC-55 exists, despite seen them quite a few times in setup of a few FPS game like Doom, Doom2, Duke of Nukem, Rise of Triad, Hexen, Heretic and Shadow Warrior. I've never seen them in any PC stores in my country or city, otherwise I'd have bought both despite its obnoxious high price. I did, however bought a SB16/Waveblaster that changed the whole PC game sound scenario for me, after listening to a PC compudex expo with Doom game that blew me away, right after that bought Sound Blaster AWE32, and filled it out with optional RAM. Those were the days of pure hardware/software innovation in the early PC gaming days. I did spend quite some big bucks with SLI Voodoo2 video card configuration and Sound Blaster AWE 64 sound cards using top of the line Intel Pentium II CPU in 1998.
Im a proud owner of the same SC-55ST except it's dark grey, it's still pristine and working infact it's hooked up to my Sound Blaster Xi-Fi Fatal1TY with the breakout box. It's quite the little machine.
Aww man I love my MIDI. Wish I could get hold of some Roland MIDI goodness but for now I'll stick to CoolSoft Virtual MIDI Synth. Does the job and warms my nostalgia well enough
When you mentioned your synth setup, I thought, in vain, a simple setup, not crazy. Maybe a korg monologue, maybe 1 or 2 basic synths, then I saw that minulogue xd and that shot of your setup. My mouth is agape and I have a whole new respect for you my dude. From one synth guy to another, what a wonderful revelation, and I would love to see the rest of your setup, if there is one. Either way, it is awesome that you have one at all.
+LGR *Speaking of making music, the Roland® GS item I's after is the SC-880,* which supports General MIDI 2 and dual stereo outputs and is fully encased for rackmounting.
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This video made me realise two things:
1. I think I actually prefer the General Midi rendition of Canyon
2. You seem to effortlessly produce beautiful shots. Even the shortest cutaway is always beautifully composed. You've gotten to the point where I as a viewer don't even notice just how well composed and put together every video really is, because you've found your "look" and everything just melds together seamlessly.
Your videos are always a joy to watch and a high-point of the week.
Thank you! Feels like I've found a nice groove over the past year-ish, so I'm glad it comes across on video 👍
@@LGR Sound is absolutely spot-on as well. The overall look is excellent, I love your videos more and more! Thanks for all the work
I agree.
Those are the reasons i suscribed to LGR. Plus is my favorite RUclips Channel.
I was just thinking how good even the shortest B roll shots are :D
I just love the absence of yellowing on these devices. Usually mixing a bunch diferent retro computer hardware results in a discordant mish-mash of beiges, yellows and tans. But in this setup of yours, it all just looks pristine.
Richard Linder there’s a way to treat yellowed plastics that can bring them up looking new. Can’t remember which channel I watched that on though.
@@karlstenator 8bit guy?
@@jerry855202 yah, I think that was the one.
@@karlstenator 8-bit guy and the process is retro-brite.
Having something like this would have blown my mind as a kid back then lmao
It still blows my mind to hear some of my favorite classic games sound so good. So many memories but my PC never sounded even close to that good
@@dans6127 I wonder if it would make older game consoles sound much better though like maybe the super nintendo.
It would also have blown your savings.
@@starquake1565 Hey, it was the 90's... that's what credit cards were for! LOL
AlphaMax the super Nintendo has no Midi Output.
I need a vid on that Synth setup, LGR
He did a video on his setup in 2017, the title is "LGR - 486 Upgrade! Building a MIDI Mountain"
@@AthenaNova1 you know that this video is the setup for the 486 woodgrain pc. It is not NOT! the synth setup from 4:42 that he showed in this setup.
@@gmp-aaron That's a good point! There's a need for an updated setup video with his current gear.
"G'WHERE IS IT??!!??!!?"
Yes, he pulls back and displays that , and as a synth guy I'm like, WTF Clint give us some sugar.
4:46 Please open that musical can of worms :D (maybe on blerbs)
I second this!
I third this!
Moar music! 4th!
Worms please!
Yes
Even though modern PCs are far more pleasant to build and use, I have a soft spot for 90s PCs. Thumbing through Computer Shopper with it's adverts for clip art, dragging the crt monitor to LAN parties, the deafening sound of a dot matrix printer, the whooomp-click of de-gausing a monitor, cleaning mouse balls, memory managers, fan fold printer paper.....! Aaaaahhh! Those were the days!
Just last year I discovered how pleasant it can be to to proper cable management with those old ribbon cables. Yes I do have a bunch of round cables, but the flat ones can basically be folded and fit through the slimmest gaps.
I don't want back the back breaking weight of CRTs or fondling mouse balls, but I do enjoy the POST beep of a proper speaker, reaction times of CRTs and somehow even managing base memory in DOS.
I had captions turned on, and the first thing I see is [thoroughly appropriate jazz].
Keep up the good work, Clint.
Damn it I keep forgetting to turn the captions on for these
:D Reminds me a bit of Technology Connections's outros -- "[ly smooth jazz]"
Just wanted to say thanks, Clint! Your MIDI tower video actually inspired me to hunt down an SC-88 for gaming and I've actually been using it a lot for music production. Wouldn't have done that without your videos!
And that's why they've shot up in price 😅
*2020, still playing DooM2 with the D-buttons and Ctrl*
...This man is incorruptible...
if I'm actually playing the game I run it that way but i mostly speedrun it, using esdf and w and r for turn so I can sr50 more easily
I still do this as well, but I use the left ctrl and alt instead, seems weird to do it like in this video.
I prefer to use a racing wheel, myself.
real pros used a flight joystick
@@incumbentvinyl9291 You're quite right about the arrow keys, I guess I've just been corrupted by consoles. As for keybindings... most sourceports I know of default to the now-standard WASD setup with mouselook by default.
4:43 HOLY SHIT PLEASE COVER THIS ON LGR! Fellow music maker here and would love to see what these old midi devices can do as far as music creation.
Yeah what The Hell. Almost rolled out of bed when I saw that setup. Need that video.
Not sure if you're interested in someone else talking about it, but I have an entire video series on my channel called Sound Profile that's focused entirely on that. I've covered most Sound Canvas models, the MT-32, the Yamaha MU series, the Roland JV/XV/XP synths, the Korg Trinity, Korg NS5R/NX5R, and soon enough, the Roland JD-990 and SD-90!
@@SpeedySPCFan Yes. Speedy's Discord server's chock full of old MIDI devices and new ways to take advantage of their potential.
Music producer and VST developer here: LGR please listen to this guy! :)
Check his Twitter, he has posted a few creations on there, but no in-depth talk
3:18 = that "WOODGRAIN" wipe....XD Of course, the rest of the video is awesome as well. Kudos for yet another job well done!
Let's attempt to control ourselves now lol
lmao I missed that. Thank you.
DukeNukem2417 oh. I thought he did that wipe thing like he does on LGR foods.
"The fact that my impulse control is dangerously close to zero when it comes to retro Roland hardware from Japan"
Priceless. Good one Clint 🤣🤣🤣
Ezio Auditore da Firenze his voice sells it!
Plus it was $40
@@azzajohnson2123 Heh. Indeed. 😄
It's weird to say, but whenever I hear music from this era being played through a Roland, it always sounds wrong to me--because whenever I was hearing that music back in the day it would be through the FM synthesis on a Soundblaster card!
I know the feeling, except instead of Soundblaster it was AdLib that I always had for DOS games
At the time I distinctly remember preferring my Gus Ultrasound or Soundblaster over MIDI, so I don't think it's just nostalgia. That old General MIDI sample set sounds just as clinical and boring to me now as it did back then.
I know the feeling, @d2factotum . We had an actual Sound Blaster 16 in our old 486 machine, and that sound still defines 90s DOS games to me. The Sound Canvas sounds _too_ good!
Coming from using an Amiga with decent sound capabilities for games to my first 486 with a SB2.0 I just assumed all PC MIDI sounded like absolute trash. It wasn't until years later that I realized it could sound decent, but only if you had the right (expensive) hardware.
Swedish fan from 92. You are THE Best. I Love watching your vidios. Make me warm inside when i see all thes nice things from before and some things that i played when i whas a kid :)
Dang that cowbell hits harddd!!!
oh hi Sam
Clint! Greetings from Osaka.
I'll let you know if I spot any more Japanese Roland stuff :D
The montage of different games proving once again that you have impeccable taste!
You made my day with this video. Other than sam and max i knew and played through every game you demonstrated today. thank you LGR.
I played the hell out of Raptor as a child. Loved to hear the music in this setup.
Thanks for that. 😊
Seconded.
You can get it on gog.com if you fancy another playthrough. :D
8:56 What Clint says matches perfectly with how Max's mouth moves
That's Sam
AHHHHGGGG, THAT'S THE NEW MINILOGUE!
I'm freaking jelly man, with the new digital oscillator and sequencer and all.
The best part of my more-than-tedious workday is taking a moment to relax and get a nice dose of LGR. Thanks for the quality content, Clint. I need to get off of my butt, hunt down a Roland module and tracker my little heart out.
When I see "MIDI" in the title of an LGR video, I am instantly preparing myself to listen to canyon.mid.
I love it! So true! Nice StronkiVods!
StronkiVods bight white said yes
Overall great video, Clint!
I can't help but notice all the detail you've put into it. There's so much love and care in the way you present everything.
I've often wondered if the fully featured models got any real use in studios--they are certainly presented that way.
My my, marvelous MIDI music makes me merry!
Very merry.
I highly approve your message for having all the words start with the same letter. That alliteration really pleases my brain cells. ^_^
@@E5rael I think it was not casual.
I just wanted to say thank you, LGR. For making these videos and for educating everyone on these otherwise forgotten devices! It's nice to come home from a long night shift in the ER and watch some of your videos to relax and learn.
Again, thank you so much, keep doing what you're doing!
8:16 Yes! Descent II! That game has some of my favourite music in it. Both the MIDI and the Redbook music are phenomenal.
Even the FM synthesis on Descent 1&2 was very good, you know given the synth soundtrack and all. I mostly played on a 16-bit Pro Audio Spectrum with the same OPL3 chip as the SB16 and Adlib Gold back in the day and it sounds impressive.
I guess Clint was only showing off the music. So I will forgive playing Descent with a mouse. This time.
Ahh the sweet soothing Roland sounds from the 90s. How comforting.
LGR: Where canon.mid is heard more Than it was in the 90s.
And also in better quality than most of us ever heard it to begin with.
As it was cheap and available in my country I went for a Casio GZ-50M which does very much the same thing but in a package that looks like an external amiga drive case, which I like. A lot. Thanks for the midi love Clint.
Everyone of these things I've ever seen was so yellowy-brown with smoke and or UV damage. That thing is extremely pristine!
I was following your channel for 2 years and now you're telling me you also into synths! Now I love you twice as more! Cheers!
4:50 wait you have a synth setup?
Maybe we can see/hear more about it here or on LGR Blerbs?? 👍
We NEED a video on this
The one time I went on Twitter and saw his page, he had a little video using it.
For those of you that are looking for an SC-55, you can also try for the SC-155.This is the tabletop version, which occasionally is dirt cheap.
1. Retro Man Cave interview: "The Voice of Duke Nukem, Jon St. John - Retro Tea Break"
2. Why there was no Monkey Island Theme?????
Thank you for generously and patiently sharing these weird and wonderful retrotoys with us!
Oh my god when i saw Raptor, i cried. I played that masterpiece so much back in the day...
LGR always uploads right when I'm sitting down to eat, it's great
5:35 been laughing at that all day now " MMM. THAT SOUNDED GOOOD"
Groovy!
Roland.. Best 90s music hardware period!.. Love these and how they sound.. I could no way ever afford these back then... Thanks for taking me back Clint! .
4:49 ... that looks interesting. Why haven'T we seen this yet?
Haven't had a reason to show it on LGR yet :)
There's a bunch about it on my Twitter though.
@@LGR blerb it please
Make some videos about that glorious setup on Blerbs then!
@@LGR What the hell is that oscilloscopey CRT and why do I need one now?
Lol it looks like something from half-life, minus the music keyboard.
No lie, I was just earlier today thinking about how much I always enjoy your videos about MIDI, and - lo and behold - a new one get thrown up! Perfect!
Clint!!!!!! We need a tour of yr synth station. My goodness.
At least an update, since it has grown since the MIDI mountain video back a few years ago.
Yes!!! Let’s hear some jams! Some industrial techno mixes!
I agree. Please, Clint... a vid on your synth set up.
@@TechnicolorMammoth It's unrelated to the MIDI Mountain, that's another beast entirely :)
I just have more than one SC-55 mkII so there's one in each setup, heh.
@@LGR May I ask you one thing: hiw much do you think one of these Roland machines can cost now?
Always great seeing you geek out over anything Midi!
I'd be really interested in a video on your synth setup.
First time with the captions on and I really appreciate how thoroughly appropriate that thoroughly appropriate jazz is.
That Descent II music is pure MIDI awesomeness.
Beautiful video. Midi music still fascinates me. These are classic music tracks and great Sound Canvas instruments. Thanks to you in a few minutes great nostalgia and return to younger years.
I’d love to know how many people actually owned these MIDI devices back in the day... In my circle of friends that had PC’s in the early 90’s, (about 5 of us...) it was a big enough spend to finally get a Sound Blaster. I don’t think any of us even knew what these Roland MIDI devices were! I never fully understood what they were until recently. I don’t remember them advertised or seeing them in stores... And at those prices, nobody I knew would have been buying them if we did.
Yeah....not once have I ever seen one of these in the wild. Not in the 90's/2000's, not ever. Even my dorky ass uncle who worked at best buy and lived in front of his PC didn't have one, and he had EVERYTHING! 😂
I love your Roland MIDI equipment, my cousin had made custom ringtones for his Motorola phone from a Roland MIDI back in the early to mid-2000s!
I had a Roland XP-60 workstation to start off on. In terms of pre set sounds, Roland can't be beat.
I never had any MIDI equipment back in the day, but I always did love that sound. You really have some awesome retro equipment.
You should make a video over your synth setup! At least a blerb about it!
I'd love that too. That brief glimpse, it looked amazing. I want to know all about it
I wasn't even aware Clint made music. Or at least interested in playing in general. I would love to see a video on it too.
Exactly this. DO IT.
I want a full video
Great video again Clint! Gained additional info on MIDI equipment thru this video! Looking forward to the next one! More power and God bless from the Philippines!
8:56 I like how your voice syncs up with Sam's mouth.
Man, you're set for the 90s!
Great video as always.
Gonna humbly and sincerely request you make an in-depth video about your updated MIDI setup, it looks amazing! P.S. 8850s are indeed big!
Heh, I always wanted an SC-88, but had to settle for an SC-55mkII the school had, and the band teacher let me borrow for quite a while (like a couple of years). Never used it for games though, but rather for generally better midi synthesis. I was really into sequencing music from sheet music into midi and then playing it back. Ah the things I wasted my youth doing... When I actually had to return the SC-55mkII back to the school, I really missed it, but they were freakishly expensive back then, so I could never justify getting one (and high speed internet was just starting to be a thing - there was no e-bay yet). I used to stare at the pictures longingly in the Roland (later Edirol) catalog.
Beside missing the opening theme of Monkey Island, this is a neat video indeed.
OMG! Rise of the Triad! Most people I talk to have never even heard of this game.
7:18 ROTT has the best OST ever.
It's criminally underrated.
Amazing game with excellent music.
Lee Jackson was actually doing the music for ROTT while also doing full time customer service at Apogee.
Civ11 uses ROTT music in EVERY video
Indeed.
I have already worked out that sounds like the alto saxophone are in fact the same samples from the likes of the Roland S-550, U-110 and U-220. But the SC-88 Pro uses many remastered versions of those same samples but with slightly more nuance like breathe noise and even different velocity expressions like growls as GS variations. This is still the one of the best saxophone sounds you can get out of a sound module and still just as useable in modern music productions ( you can really enhance the sound with EQ and reverb ).
Well hello there, this little sucker is going to be my afternoon nap video..
Afternoon naps are good.
Update: I went driving instead of napping. Driving is also good.
ok
I would pay anything just to make my old games sound like that, its a priceless feeling, what a glorious review.
I thought for sure your next video was going to be a Sims 20 year anniversary video.
I've already done a retrospective on it, I still stand by it :)
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@@LGRThat's true!
This generation will never know the greatness of that go to midi song. I never even had midi, and still went in every once in a while and just listened to it.
I didn't know MIDI was a porn category...
Welcome!
Esto llegaba en la epoca de menem?
Oh my God, I love Raptor so friggin' much. I grew up with it as a kid and have so many fond memories of me and my cousins staying up late trying different weapons and trying to beat it in general. The music and gameplay were so amazing.
"In a world where people hate paying more than 300 for a GPU......there was......"
These videos are always so fun to watch-
The synth bass is awsome on Vikings. Like your synth setup. Great to see its Y2K compliant.
Great to see stuff that I missed during my childhood.
please do a vid and your synth setup, from what i've seen on twitter, that rack is insane!
Amazing how decades old audio technology can hold up for such a long, it just feels so authentic in listening, also Waves of nostalgia all over the place for me
Step one: Upvote.
Step two: Watch the video.
Man, hearing the MT-32 difference for the first time is what made me want to build a DOS machine. I either heard Monkey Island 1 or Police Quest 2. Being from a small Eastern European country I had no hope of finding such a device locally, but after some serious asking around second hand music equipment stores, a guy connected me with a friend of his, who had an MT-32.
A year or so later I was lucky again, when a similar situation occurred and I got an SC-55.
I've been using them for about 6 years now and couldn't be happier.
5:43 "digital ROM-based sampler, or Rompler"
I can't believe this is an actual term
It is. The term was commonly found in 1990s keyboard/ synth magazines.
Maaaan that music sounds fantastic. It sounds like you REMEMBER the game sounding, instead of the beeps and boops it actually had.
3:18 WOODGRAIN? :D
If your electronics were in fake woodgrain in the 70's you were a straight pimp.
I was doing something on my other screen but when that Descent 2 sample came on I had to stop and take notice. Hot *damn* that sounds amazing!
I have to agree there. How was that just midi music? That was breathtaking!
USB: „Midi what??“
I know lots of composers were working with Roland, but after seeing your previous MIDI synth shootout I realized I just really like the way Yamaha sounds. I have an MU80 now :)
A somewhat ultimate midi solution in those days would have been the GS-500 which packed both a CM-64 and GM/GS in the same unit
This entire channel is amazing to the point where if I'm drinking on a Friday night and I see a new upload, I throw it in my bookmarks toolbar between all my most visited websites and label it "LGR NEW VIDEO" so I know it's there when I wake up. Can't waste a new LGR video on a drunken viewing. See you in like twelve hours.
I was born in 2000 and I want a sound canvas and all the other og Roland gear
I didn't know Roland MT-32 or SC-55 exists, despite seen them quite a few times in setup of a few FPS game like Doom, Doom2, Duke of Nukem, Rise of Triad, Hexen, Heretic and Shadow Warrior. I've never seen them in any PC stores in my country or city, otherwise I'd have bought both despite its obnoxious high price. I did, however bought a SB16/Waveblaster that changed the whole PC game sound scenario for me, after listening to a PC compudex expo with Doom game that blew me away, right after that bought Sound Blaster AWE32, and filled it out with optional RAM. Those were the days of pure hardware/software innovation in the early PC gaming days. I did spend quite some big bucks with SLI Voodoo2 video card configuration and Sound Blaster AWE 64 sound cards using top of the line Intel Pentium II CPU in 1998.
Oh wow, you even included Raptor.
An amazing old school game.
Man the soundtracks were so awesome back then
That music is crystal clear. I wish I heard this when I was younger. So much better than my SoundBlaster 16 I had on my 486.
Always love your content Clint!
Man...that Raptor: Call of the Shadows part took me back....such a great soundtrack
I love that you included Lost Vikings. Childhood classic for me right there.
Im a proud owner of the same SC-55ST except it's dark grey, it's still pristine and working infact it's hooked up to my Sound Blaster Xi-Fi Fatal1TY with the breakout box. It's quite the little machine.
Aww man I love my MIDI. Wish I could get hold of some Roland MIDI goodness but for now I'll stick to CoolSoft Virtual MIDI Synth. Does the job and warms my nostalgia well enough
4:46 - sees KRK reference monitors and Audio Technica headphones....
I see you're a man of culture as well.
Haha! I remember this. These were THE sounds back then. I still have one.
Seeing some of those game clips really brings me back.
Your synth setup looks great! Have you ever done a video on it? I see a lot of equipment I know/like.
When you mentioned your synth setup, I thought, in vain, a simple setup, not crazy. Maybe a korg monologue, maybe 1 or 2 basic synths, then I saw that minulogue xd and that shot of your setup. My mouth is agape and I have a whole new respect for you my dude. From one synth guy to another, what a wonderful revelation, and I would love to see the rest of your setup, if there is one. Either way, it is awesome that you have one at all.
+LGR *Speaking of making music, the Roland® GS item I's after is the SC-880,* which supports General MIDI 2 and dual stereo outputs and is fully encased for rackmounting.