It's not a keyboard, it's a sound-module. i.e. it's the part which generates the sounds but doesn't have any keys on it to play and is controlled by another MIDI device.
It was an important product in it's day since it was the first multi-timbral (hence MT) synth meaning it could play more than one instrument at a time (e.g. piano and trumpet). The 32 refers to the maximum simultanous voices of the device. Each instrument uses between 1 and 4 voices, so the actual polyphony was between 8 and 32 depending on the instruments you were using. If you had two MT32s you could daisy chain so overflow notes go to the second device.
As others have mentioned they were supported in various games, like the Sierra adventures. My personal fave was X-wing with the MT32 (music) + Soundblaster (effects) setting.
MT32s are pre-GM (General MIDI) so the instrument mappings are non-standard (luckily the drums are the same). Various MIDI devices will have a MT32 mapping mode, so MIDI files will sound about right but for the real effect you'd need the real device.
The tone generators were a hybrid of FM generation (i.e. sawtooth waveform etc.) plus a limited amount of sampled data.
hmmm, they don't sound the most open source of people. Presumably they'll have to release the kernel part under GPL but I dare say all the other stuff (address box, calender etc) were developed in house and so they can license them any damn way they like - much like Tivo in fact.
It's not that the CD is unreadable (in the sense of the laser not recognising the disc), just there's so many deliberate errors on the disc a CD-ROM will give up whilst a CD audio player will have a stab.
The idea is a non-starter any 'bridging' (i.e. interpolation) an audio player can be replicated in software, and you just need a ripper that can ignore errors. These exist already, Blindread and (I think) PSXcopy will both copy discs with errors on (commonly whole radial tracks not recorded on at all) and dump to an ISO.
General rule: if you can read it to play it, you can read it to copy it.
I download MySQL from the.com reasonably recently and it came with Gemini tables, with details in the documentation, they obviosuly didn't mind it then.
After seeing this press-release I went back, no Gemini in the contents and this at the top:
"Removed all documentation referring to the GEMINI table type. GEMINI is not released under an Open Source license."
Mind you, the reason you can't put fast drives in those boxes is due to the extra heat they produce. Sound & heat are kinda related with drives so reducing one may reduce the other, which would let you use the SilentDrive box.
Also, quietpc.com have used 7200rpm drives in a SilentDrive box anyway (IBM).
So why not take one of these and then put it in a SilentDrive box?
btw, I've got a low noise Quantum (4400rpm, 2.5-3 bels or therabouts) in one of these and it's good, but not great. i.e. I can still hear it as it gets towards night-time. During the day though with normal room levels of noise it's 'silent'.
also, SilentDrive is available from quietpc.com for UK people.
in the UK, the digital terrestrial transmissions are a few seconds behind the analogue ones.
If you can set it up right so only you can hear the analogue TV you can have quite a good run on gameshows that way too. It works best on quick fire quizes like Weakest Link.
Apparently the older OnDigital (Digital Terestial TV) decoder boxes could output composite video/RGB & S-VHS. After an upgrade, the S-VHS output option vanished. Reason? People dubbing from OnDigital to SVHS tape (or so I've heard...)
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sigh. link points to goatse.cx
It's not a keyboard, it's a sound-module. i.e. it's the part which generates the sounds but doesn't have any keys on it to play and is controlled by another MIDI device.
It was an important product in it's day since it was the first multi-timbral (hence MT) synth meaning it could play more than one instrument at a time (e.g. piano and trumpet). The 32 refers to the maximum simultanous voices of the device. Each instrument uses between 1 and 4 voices, so the actual polyphony was between 8 and 32 depending on the instruments you were using. If you had two MT32s you could daisy chain so overflow notes go to the second device.
As others have mentioned they were supported in various games, like the Sierra adventures. My personal fave was X-wing with the MT32 (music) + Soundblaster (effects) setting.
MT32s are pre-GM (General MIDI) so the instrument mappings are non-standard (luckily the drums are the same). Various MIDI devices will have a MT32 mapping mode, so MIDI files will sound about right but for the real effect you'd need the real device.
The tone generators were a hybrid of FM generation (i.e. sawtooth waveform etc.) plus a limited amount of sampled data.
not London, but see also www.tele2.co.uk
NTL's press release says you must "Have unobstructed view of one of our transmitter locations"
this sounds similar to tele2 as it also requires line-of-sight.
Duncan
see:
http://www.linuxda.com/legal.html
hmmm, they don't sound the most open source of people. Presumably they'll have to release the kernel part under GPL but I dare say all the other stuff (address box, calender etc) were developed in house and so they can license them any damn way they like - much like Tivo in fact.
It's not that the CD is unreadable (in the sense of the laser not recognising the disc), just there's so many deliberate errors on the disc a CD-ROM will give up whilst a CD audio player will have a stab.
The idea is a non-starter any 'bridging' (i.e. interpolation) an audio player can be replicated in software, and you just need a ripper that can ignore errors. These exist already, Blindread and (I think) PSXcopy will both copy discs with errors on (commonly whole radial tracks not recorded on at all) and dump to an ISO.
General rule: if you can read it to play it, you can read it to copy it.
I download MySQL from the .com reasonably recently and it came with Gemini tables, with details in the documentation, they obviosuly didn't mind it then.
After seeing this press-release I went back, no Gemini in the contents and this at the top:
"Removed all documentation referring to the GEMINI table type. GEMINI is not released under an Open Source license."
doh! because it's a 7200rpm drive.
Mind you, the reason you can't put fast drives in those boxes is due to the extra heat they produce. Sound & heat are kinda related with drives so reducing one may reduce the other, which would let you use the SilentDrive box.
Also, quietpc.com have used 7200rpm drives in a SilentDrive box anyway (IBM).
So why not take one of these and then put it in a SilentDrive box?
btw, I've got a low noise Quantum (4400rpm, 2.5-3 bels or therabouts) in one of these and it's good, but not great. i.e. I can still hear it as it gets towards night-time. During the day though with normal room levels of noise it's 'silent'.
also, SilentDrive is available from quietpc.com for UK people.
in the UK, the digital terrestrial transmissions are a few seconds behind the analogue ones.
If you can set it up right so only you can hear the analogue TV you can have quite a good run on gameshows that way too. It works best on quick fire quizes like Weakest Link.
Apparently the older OnDigital (Digital Terestial TV) decoder boxes could output composite video/RGB & S-VHS. After an upgrade, the S-VHS output option vanished. Reason? People dubbing from OnDigital to SVHS tape (or so I've heard...)