For those asking about my main synth setup and what I make with it, there are a number of brief videos on Twitter showing that in action! twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1348468340776427520 I'll probably have an LGR video on it eventually though 👍

Eric Sills

4 dagen geleden

I'd like to see how your main synth equipment is hooked up. I get a strange kick out of such processes.

Vortex 64

24 dagen geleden

Not too long ago techmoan did a review of a graphical EQ that actually is legit so you could look at that for a replacement for the fake one

BASIL!!!!! The musical and pumpin' Seagull

29 dagen geleden

@Zoo Horizon I like the Fairlight, but it's just a nostalgia piece now. Just as I like the MT-32, but almost every VST completely blows it out of the water nowadays.

Zoo Horizon

Maand geleden

Left or right? RE: Which would you give for a Fairlight CMI?

Jesse Monk

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Make synth videos please!!!!!

More like building a bigger, badder beard! Looks good Clint. Nice and clean.l

My Mum called me for a Covid-19 test but I’m scared so I’m watching this bc it makes me feel better

well that soundcanvas has a pretty screen. can you play doom on it?

Wtf is a "MIDI enthusiast"?

Remove that stupid equalizer and shove in an Emagic Unitor in there so you have an individual MIDI IN for each device so you can play different channels on each (or mirror the channels if you feel so)... makes much more sense as feeding them the exact same data... also, you won't need the thru-box and the MIDI interface either. There are older versions of the UNITOR with serial to PC for older machines as well as newer with USB.

Did you know that you can adjust the display contrast on the MT-32? Worth a try...

This was a very enjoyable video to watch, thank you!

Man somebody is stuck in the past

I just love your dedication

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At 1 point in 2002 I had over 53 rack items mounted and was going for the full fill of 127 devices to max 1 channel of midi on A. Most of my rack items (E-MU E4XT) had up to 4 (a,b,c,d) Midi ins and outs. Then all the power conditioning, all the signal wires isolated and insulated perpendicular to any power lines low or high voltage. My electricity bill was always high like running 5 big window air conditioners and all the energy created a lot of heat. Dry radiant heat. I always loved my Korg NX5R for a quik basic sound set normal and had 48 midi w/ daughter board. My E-MU samplers were the bomb. The mapping samples to keys and the punch in the truncation is still unmatched. I always liked before we had all the plugins today and processing, you had to have external midi. Just to sequence that much midi on a 133mhz Pentium II and the audio hi-res 2-track was a load. Today, blows my mind, I can run 16 omnispheres, 64 samplers etc. on one pc box and eliminate my whole wall of racked gear. Cool video man. Thanks.

While undeniably cool, this really isn't needed. The MT-32 and SC 55 mk2 are entirely sufficient.

Imagine building a badass midi rack to play Doom ... Sign me up for that.

The Way by Fastball midi file.

Could you just not have added stopping bolts to the end of the shelve? No added height and you could still pull foreward out.

That case and its contents are actually super freakin' sweet LOL! Awesome video

The Yamaha Dangit. Cant wait to get my own. Hahahaha. Nice midi mountain Clint

Imagine trying to get that case through the airport scanner. Be prepared to answer a LOT of questions, haha.

Poor Korg was left out of the party

What about reworking the MT32 case so it is just 1 RU tall? In the past I've moved rackmount ears from other switches, and as long as the case itself fits, the front could remain happily angled. Maybe drill and bolt lugs on the side of your other stock MT32, which would give you a 1RU slot spare for MORE THINGS.

When he fired up the demo at 24:36 I instantly had flashbacks to playing the SNES again. Happy memories 😁.

Very satisfying to see, after you placed the last module into the rackmount.

That bossa nova sounded incredible. I remember loving the midi music in Theme Hospital

Here's loving that you answered the question, "but can it play Doom?"

Third arm! Third Arm!

Another dope track for the MT32 is Sylpheed from Sierra On-Line as well... :)

Police Quest with MT32....oh man.

midi sounds a lot better than its induction over 30 yrs ago, great vid

I like midi music, but I don't like midi music that is trying not to be midi music. If that makes any sense.

What's the cool clock thing on the top of the stack at the start of the video?

Now I fuckin want one, for dubstep purposes

30:00 Wow that sounds like a bi-plane

Highly enjoyable video, I love GM in Ms Dos gaming. Love the build. One thing I have to mention though, when everything is turned on, they generate heat, maybe active fane cooling will be an idea for summer video update😊

I HATE that stupid equalizer

30:01. Sweet, Excitebike.

33:35 I was not expecting that since it sounded much brighter earlier with melodic instruments.

This is sweet! All together it's like an orchestra, on 80s drugs.

1:20 in 2020 LGR was trying to be the new Mick Gordon 😏

Man MIDI is freaking awesome. I'm honestly disappointed I missed all this growing up. The only game I played growing up with MIDI music is Stunts, and I played that on a PC without dedicated MIDI support. so I've only had the smallest and worst taste of it growing up, yet I already loved that game's music and it's since fueled my love for MIDI music in general!

wow

Hey so Sims 4 minimum OS is XP, you should try it 🥺

How about some slinking flex too send the cables along the sides in a clean fit

The ONLY way to play Doom. I must have my own midi mountain

You should have a dedicated LGR MIDI channel. Would definitely subscribe!!!!!!!!!

Really nice comparison. Ever try the Roland JV-1080 or 2080? While they were professional modules they both had an excellent GM mode I used for many late-90s games. Kawai in general is a very underrated synth brand.

I think, these cheap chinese equalizers are scam. But it can be replaced with normal rack EQ, either graphical or parametric. dbx 215 or Yamaha GQ1031, for example. The rest of the rack is excellent, excellent! That's the true way to DOS games music.

would love to see more audio videos. could have guessed youd be into analog synthesis, you should make a channel for hifi audio

that music station setup is really pretty looking with all the lights 🤘🤙🔥

Hi Clint! I´m a big fan of LGR. I think i have a sugestion of a perfect 31 band spectrum analyser for this MIDI hack. The name is Fun Generation RTA-31. Keep up with the amazing work! We do realy appreciated!

42:37 hey, the mt-32 is trying its best, dang it!

To this day I can't see a spectrum analyzer without thinking of Winamp. FYI, I'm one of those guys who very much dislikes midi sound, but I very much like it when you're messing around with sound like this so its still great content

I had no Idea you were into hardware synthesizers as much as you are. Been watching you for years . This made my year. I guess it makes sense you like retro tech and retro music a lot of overlap in these interests.

Great video! The half-rack module I really love is the alesis nanosynth. I find its sound is quite surprisingly good. Its the same form factor as the ones you have. Peace!

I want to play with your toys! I am lucky enough to have a MT-32 but have never plugged it upto my pc I really should!

Would you use it with a Sharp X68000?

You are a god damn wizard

That Gmega has a very Super Nintendo sound. I think that's the unit used for composing Super Nintendo music.

Didn't occur to me until now that Fire Hawk has a Jean Michel Jarre sound to it

This was really good. I with my soundblaster 16 didn't realize midi could sound so good. I loved the old CFM tunes from Creative. Makes me wonder how those would have sounded through a deck like this.

That equalizer has rackmount ears for a older datacenter rack not audio lol why would that ever be on there

Man, that is cool!! Kinda would love it you did and FM Synth version adlib and various Paralelport Sound devices I think It could be a fun way to show how Soundblaster and stuff changed.

This was nuts bro. I watched the whole video. Well done dude. You know your stuff!

Volume in drive C is WOOD

so bling.... lol ....soon, you will need to unplug from this rabbit hole Bad'grrrr

Soooo, those aren't musical instruments? What are they, what do they do.

Hi Clint! When you’re dealing with MIDI and nothing is being played, the light flashing is an “All notes off” pulse. MIDI sends the note data, how hard it was struck, if it’s being held, and if anything is being used like pitch bend / after touch / panning / then the final signal sent is when you release the note. You should see if someone would loan you a piece of pro gear like a used Korg Triton, Yamaha Motif, etc. 😉

I would be curious to hear what Transport Tycoon songs would be like, played it so many hours back in the days.

My face immediately smiled the moment I saw your Minilogue xd. I bloody love mine

techmoan showed a spectrum analyzer last week maybe get that thomann one

Who's that at 9:44?

Meets the Army definition of portable: if a regiment can move it, it's portable.

Kawai is a musical instrument maker. Their pianos gave Steinway a run for their money back in the day. Akai is an electronics manufacturer most noted among audiophiles for their tape recorders. I've used their M4 and M8 reel-to-reel recorders, and they are outstanding.

Regarding the rackmount spectrum analyser, whilst I'm sure you know by now, Techmoan uploaded a vid about a really good one the other day. At least I think it was 1U

That Kawai sounds fuckin impressive but I must admit. I always love how clean Yamaha devices sound. Idk there's just something I appreciate about them whether it comes to Hi-Fi or MIDI or frankly anything. They always manage to have a very neat sound. Maybe that's just me though.

I think the reason your midi light continued to flash is that the MPU-401 was still sending midi time code. You're right, once you're back in DOS, nothing could have been sent from the PC, so it had to be coming from the MPU. Second - it is standard that the MT-32 channels start at 2, and I also believe the reason your one sound module was in a strange single instrument condition is probably because of the control signals sent to the MT32 by the sierra game you sent.. The configuration commands intended for the MT32 would have potentially had random meaning to the other general midi devices. Overall great job!! You need to label every power switch and mixer channel though.. That would drive me crazy, not knowing which dial was for which module!!

I don't know why you'd go to all that effort when the Akai consistently sounds the best for anything.

Best gaming experience using all MIDI devices for Audio. Most intense sound. :D

That sounded like something they would playing in the Miami vice show

Techmoan has done another video about a spectrum analyzer, this time both are decent and rack mountable. Hope they will fit your needs.

43:30 the only and BEST way to play Doom on DoS. man I wish I had those midi devices.

If you feel that the Yamaha MU80 sounds a bit bland, that is because the unit was really made for the Yamaha's own XG standard. I bet if you feed it some XG data it will really shine. I remember having an XG daughterboard on my SB16 back in the day and I have always been in awe of the XG standard ever since.

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Okay... now play some Theme Hospital with all of them going. That game has some nice and weird music after all. 😎

I to think 2017 was two years ago lol

Cool ! Get gird of that terrible EQ !

that DOOM Level on no monsterharm / no damage ... worldrecord ? 11sec. ?

I went a different route, I have 4 internal sound cards, a Roland LAPCI, Roland RAP10, AWE 64 Gold, and an Adlib clone for FM. It gives me everything I want without the need foe external synths.

man, I really took MIDI for granted growing up on PC games in the early 90s. it's all so nostalgic now. awesome setup LGR!

lol that is too much!!! greetings!

uh clint ... where the fuck did that third arm come from .????????

An Arduino would fit nice for a custom Spectogram I think.

Wasted opportunity to say "It's no longer a MIDI mountain, more of a MIDI molehill"

Roland, Yamaha and Kawai are all from the same city in Japan - Hamamatsu.

"It just works" Phantom Todd Howard appears and disappears

Wow cool synthesizer work station.....and super sexy beard.

LGR really just casually flexes a full modular synth setup.

there is always something interesting going on here

we need uncut doom synth mountain gameplay

Will you be changing out the equalizer? Also maybe put the mt-32 below the power switches so its easier to see the text.