Pimp my PSG #1 - Das Piratenboot by Meits

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Wow! I am speechless.
As you all know Higemaru is one of my favourite games.
This is done very very well. My compliments!

Wooaaahhhh!!!

holy cow!

I wonder what the original composer thinks of this

Sounds nice!

@meits: Interesting setup. I had (before this contest) thought about using synthesis through msx midi software but I didn't wanted bother with learning to use yet another msx tracker/sequencer.. so I thought you using the midipac and some software you are familiar with was pretty clever.

Guys, thanks for the replies. Quite humbling to be honest.

As for the setup. It's really just a test on what's possible on the hardware side. And I'm in the lucky position to have enough stuff to do weird things. Making things go in harmony is the challenge.
First thing I tested was having Erik Maas' MIDI2OPL4 player handle the Moonsound data. This turned out to be possible in theory as there's a little "bug" in it making the percussion go wrong when there are other instruments being played. Therefore this test video has the Moonsound recorded in two takes.
As this method would disqualify my entry, I decided to let go this otherwise nice tool and settled for the plan B option:
A second music file being done in MBWAVE.
This gave me some freedom in what in the mix as the Moonsound would not just play whatever Moonblaster 1.4 threw at it. but when I thought I was done with the Moonsound part, I ran into the sync problem. The later MBWAVEs use the Moonsound's internal clock to keep the music on the same tempo on 50Hz and 60Hz. Nyyrikki pointed me on that and I should go find myself an older version of MBWAVE. Luckily BiFi still had this older version.
Starting both MB1.4 and MBWAVE at the same time was just one big party to the ears. It synced flawlessly.
To let de Moonsound start at the same time as the Moonblaster 1.4 computer (the main computer), I decided to use the MIDI signal as a trigger. As MBWAVE doesn't listen to MIDI I could not play the Moonsound data in MBWAVE but had to write a little basic program which loads the music data and listens to the MIDI in if there's anything happening there, and if so, start the tune. So indeed snout, there isn't an MBWAVE replayer that's MIDI synced ;)

Sadly Synthesix only listens to channel 1 of my Moonblaster tune. But actually this came quite in handy. As Synthesix doesn't care about what volume a channel is set, I muted channel 1 on Moonblaster. This muted channel was now being played on SCC, be it with a slight delay. Because of this delay I chose to just play long notes on SCC and use a not to steep attack. In the mix this slight delay can hardly be heard. In the clip it can be seen though.

As Jorito says this could be the situation with the most MSX channels at the same time... Nah... SME beats this easily... It could however be quite some bigger when using this MIDI trigger to start a Moonsound. The main computer having one MIDI device to start the chain playing would be one of the sixteen possible computers. If one has 15 computers with a Moonsound in spare, that could unleash some crazy music :D

For what it's worth. This was a proof of concept. It does work. But I could have pulled this tune off with just one Moonsound as well. So audio-wise I don't think it's that special. :)

Your wish is granted

And I came up with a weird idea I think would work on MSX, just have to work out some details and find an interesting PSG track to use it with.

Yipeee! I'll reserve the space on the ipod