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FM Melody Maker - [Atari ST] Listening to demonstration songs (1989)
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2015
- FM Melody Maker is a FM synthesis cartridge made by Hybrid Arts for the Atari ST.
In this video so do i play all the example songs that came with the software package.
It do output stereo sound and the cartridge is AFAIK built around the Yamaha YM2413 (OPLL) sound chip and the stereo effect is because the YM2413 can output "melody voices" and "rhythm voices" seperate on left or right channel.
The soundchip is not labeled YM2413 in the cartridge so i wonder if it is a bootleg chip or just a "professional" version of the YM2413? It is labeled "MS1824", "2423B-Y".
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Recorded from my Atari ST (1 mb) using Micomsoft RGB capturecard SC-500N1 and Xsync-1, software used is AmarecTV and Virtualdub.
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Whoever composed these was obviously very talented, very knowledgeable when it comes to music theory. It's not often you here 11th chords on the ST! :D some of these remind me of arcade games of a certain era. Great upload, Stefan, thanks for sharing.
+The Joy of Sticks If you check 0:42 in the video so is the name of the person behind the music mentioned :)
@DwDw Maquero Sorry i don't have the knowledge on how to convert the files to .mid.
Hipster! Always loved this one!
Awesome video, thank you very much! My dad bought FM Melody Maker back in 1990 (I was 9 years old). I used to listen to the demo songs for hours with my father, so obviously they bring back a lot of memories. I still own the cart and an Atari STE, and every three years I turn it on to listen to the demo songs. Thanks to your video, I will be able to listen to them more easily. My favorite song is Titbits. The funny thing is I am 100% sure there were only 4 songs: for some reasons, Heart (excellent song) and Popeye were not included in the version I got.
Atari forever!
Strange really that a cheapish cart was never common place to give the ST an upgraded soundchip that could be taken advantage of by games etc.
The background beat in TITBITS (9:03) sounds exactly like the.. I think DISCO preset rhythm on the Yamaha PSS-170
Very nice quality. Liking the sounds :-)
If I remember correctly this software looks identical to Music Maker which came bundled in the Power Pack, but without the FM cartridge.
I thought I'd seen this interface before!
I remember playing these on my ST. Great times. Could never make anything good on it myself though ha ha ;)
How could I export these themes to Midi?
To be able to rehearse them, maybe at least the melodic part and then the rest I would do on my own, the bass, the percussion etc but the good thing would be to be able to export the whole .mus project to midi
I have tried with an emulator but it has been a failure, could I somehow connect if the computer (the Atari) had the input from my keyboard (Yama PSR-GX76) to the Atari and the output from the Atari to another computer that has a midi sequencer?
Or connect the output with the output and the input with the input and record it in the memory of my keyboard (if it manages to interpret the instruments well of course)
The YM2423 is a variant of the YM2413 that has a different bank of preset tones in it, according to Wikipedia. The MS bit might be a licensee internal number (Sharp perhaps?).
Maybe
I checked the underrated chip thingy website, yes it is, ms bit is sharp
Seeing the Chip Number, Its was Made by Sharp (Not Exactly), But Yamaha Made the Chip Itself, It was Called the FM Operator Type-LL-X (OPLL-X) Which is Labeled as MS1823 (YM2423B-X) Or MS1824 (YM2423-Y).
Edit: But Its not Different from the Lowpower OPLL, Isnt it?
Did this have a cable end that plugs into MIDI OUT to play back music from any MIDI sequencer? It really would have been awesome to have an FM synth to play MIDI music in games instead of the ST soundchip...
Nope... it has no MIDI support.
Why would you do that when the thing is already plugged in to the cartridge port? The idea was that games would address it directly, but I don't know if any did. The Music Maker software, however, DOES let you play a MIDI stream into the computer through the built-in ports, and output it through the cartridge. (Annoyingly enough, I don't think it has any option to use the cartridge chip and the ST's own YM2413 together; that could be a pretty powerful combination, on the evidence of various Japanese machines that featured things like the OPNA which did essentially the same thing in a single chip)
I wonder why it runs in low rez when it hardly uses any colours other than those typically used in medium rez, and basically none that couldn't have just been dithered...
Maybe to make the playback (and UI) as fast as possible..?
Is there a way of getting the actual MUS files and convert them to midi to play on a modern DAW like Logic or Garage Band?
Any idea of any similar software for the ST? I remember having one which looked a bit like this but it wasn't this. I also remember one of the demo songs in that was Canon in D Major.
I know a couple... Music Maker, Music Studio and Music Construction Set.
Thanks, I am pretty sure it was Music Studio.