MoonSound effect chip

I guess the thing was expensive enough already? Since the market for the cartridge was a bit limited, maybe not that many people were interested in a effects chip. Also, the OPL4 itself was such a big improvement over all existing sound expansions, missing an effects chip was not a disaster

Hello,

This is kind of a late responds from me, but mabye there are still people reading this topic.

This effect processor(DSP) can indeed be connected to the opl4, however the opl4 offers limited functionality for it. You can olny select if a opl4 channel should be routed through the DSP or not, also extra mixing hardware must be added to combine these channels again (the channels straight from the opl4 and the ones routed through the DSP). It would not be very easy for sunrise to place a extra chip on the opl4 board. This DSP is a SMD chip with lots of pins and it would also require extra I/O ports with the Z80.

But I will modify mbwave if there is ever going to be such a moonsound modification.

Greeting Marcel Delorme

rather invest in s-ram .. that requiem I did had plenty of reverb already.. ok it's tricky, it consumes ram, and editing sux .. but hey .. reverb!

hmmmhmm... can I say uhm .. according to Sunrise a 1mb expansion would be relativily cheaper than 512k ... I wouldn't mind pluging-in 1mb.. (greatly expands the soundquality!) and somewhat try to 'force' that amount to others ..but uhm..

*kuch* I did make some noise about 640k.. did I? *kuch*

I would rather be interested in
1. fixing my moonsound again
2. getting a new one

Reverb is always cool. (the trick Wolf talkes about is called "delay" or even "echo"when using higher delay rates, it's NOT the same as reverb. When using delays lower then, say, 1 ms, a Flanger effect will pop up.)

I think adding RAM on the board is a better option... the 640k thing Wolf keeps whimping about.. I'd choose for more RAM.

2 cents? dunno