The future of 8bit sound

Although I'm not a musician, the music scene on MSX has fascinated me since the old days. Unlike the Atari ST, which dominated many recording studios as a kind of standard, the MSX not only controlled MIDI instruments, generated the sounds itself and caused many users to deal with the sound forms. Grauws player (and ohers of course) now seem to open another door.
Anyway, da_Dude, thanks for sharing the twitch link!

Fun fact, besides the MSX itself, his SFG, and the MMM he used for the Genesis demonstrations, I provided most of the hardware. Modulon, Makoto, Yamaha adapter, Shockwave, an SCC, and I even sent him a copy of Xak II.

In the presentation the guy said that he got the Shockwave there and was a bit like "it's not the best" about it. I wonder why he said that. All other OPL4 cartridges use the same not-too-good DAC while Shockwave claims to use a better one. That should improve the sound. Purely for that reason I joined a friend who just ordered one. I am curious to hear if it's better. It's quite strange to hear him say it's a not so good one then. I have all the other ones which do differ a bit from each other, but they all have points on which they could've improved the sound quality.
I wish I already had the thing so I could either back him up or debunk it. But I guess that'll take a while. The postal service loves to store stuff from outside the EU on their shelves just to tease us. Bad EU.

Just updated my 4gb VGM MFR SDcard again, and thought i'd share here also. note: these are all Unpacked/Renamed *.VGM files for use on 'normal' MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ machines. No *.VGZ files so No Long Loading/Unpacking time before tunes actually start to play. i also removed all m3u/png files.
if one would like/prefer the same content but Untouched with all *.VGZ files etc [for happy TurboR users], let me know and i'll upload it too.
Usage:
one can Write this *.IMG to a 4gb SDcard using Win32DiskImager, or just unpack it with 7zip to destination of choice and copy the content to whereever you'd like it.
Link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/zd2els55soklouf/SceneCAT_MFR_...

Enjoy
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okay, so here are the Untouched files from VGMrips.net
https://ufile.io/air8x

in the meantime, i've removed some vgm's from the OPN2c/Sega_MD folder to make some free space so i could Update the 4GB VGM SDcard /Scene-folder with lots of Scene/Chiptune/Homebrew VGM tunes (480), taken from several sources. (even 500+ Midi tunes but those are added to my 16gb/32gb SDcards. the 32gb has all them Sega_MD vgm's too)

Updated 4gb VGM MFR SDcard:
https://ufile.io/t8ews

and Don't Panic! here it is, a nice link with the Sega_MD VGM's:
https://archive.org/details/Project2612CompleteArchive201806...

Enjoy !

greetz, SceneCAT
ps. grrr, now i also want a TurboR.... :D
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@Meits: Dosent the DalSoRi R2 have the best sound quality off all the OPL4? Better than shockwave I think.

The sound of both Dal-So-Ri is about the same. It's slightly softer than the Sunrise Moonsound in both volume and sound color. But noise there is.

WOZ Blaster stands out to be the worst I've heard since its output is very low. That affects the noise ratio. WOZ Blaster has been released as FM Blaster as well. There is a fix but that requires a steady hand. The result is great.
There are two Dal-So-Ri. Both are louder than WOZ Blaster but there's the same noise. Because the output it louder, the noise is less present, but still there.
Moonsound is even louder. Sounds a tiny tad sharper than Dal-So-Ri. It's up to now my second choice after Dal-So-Ri.

I've been complaining about the noise on the jack output at a friend who knows stuff. He says it is possible to make a fix, but there's no generic fix that covers all audio cartridges. I wouldn't mind losing some $$$ to get those outputs finally clean.
In my experience it does make a difference in what MSX you have your audio cartridge connected. Most of my MSXes are Japanese models. All add noise to any audio cartridge's own audio output. Even if pin 49 has been cut. The more brightness on your screen, the louder the noise (that's why vgmplay has a dark mode). The same cartridges produce a way cleaner sound when they're connected to my Philipses. Therefore I think the hiss you talk about might be because you use a WSX.

You guys need to see the Brazilian OPL4 cartridges which went with SANYO CD Player DACs. Almost ZERO noise.

Sample:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17M9M4UlB5xddrWf53GwbL_mLnS...

YAC513 sucks.

Is the Sanyo one pin-to-pin compatible btw?
(i also have read on audio-hw diy forums that yac513 is not good for quality audio...)

I'm with Meits. If the DAC is pin-2-pin compatible I will replace it if possible.

Im pretty sure most of us will pay an extra bucks for a decent DAC and a noise free OPL4, wondering why it has not been made before.

Is there any software and music productions that comes close to using _all_ features of a MoonSound/OPL4 at the same time?

Grauw: how heavy is it to control all these channels at once?

Pretty heavy I'd say .

I was thinking of yzi and his milky tracker + msx replayer construction and was about to write that down. But then I found out that would be a rather useless answer.