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You also need msx-dos2

I knew that.But when you emulate Turbo-R on bleu MSX msx-dos 2 is already there.
But I also tried msx-2 emulation with msx-dos2 in slot 1 or slot 2.
But it work not correct.
Are there people who can help me???
PLZ I want to know fast.

Well, that's been a long time ago. Yes, I became daddy for the third time. Thanx for the congratz!

For all those people who are wondering: did he quit his Meridian Midi Opl hobby? the answer is: NO (pfew...!)
All the times that I've been working on Meridian (not so many moments last year, but nevertheless) I've been focussing on the Opl4 part.
The redesign of the Opl4 tone bank is almost complete. Now you can load wavfiles. Stereo wavetables are split up in a left and right channel wavetable. It works pretty well.

I think I've some questions to answer:

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In many Midi-files, different notes have different velocity. Is velocitiy the same as the VOL command!? The VOL command needs his own entry, right? I mean.....'C4 vol 90' doesn't work. Just 'vol 90' does. How do you change the velocity/volume of a single note, then? On one command line entry? It obviously is possible, but I can't get it right. Does the velocity/volume change per midi channel? I guess so?
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The velocity is a different volume setting as de channel volume, since the velocity is note based, so it must be specified for each note. The channel volume can be set using the VOL command. The velocity is incapsulated in a note on (and even is a note off) event.

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When selecting MIDI channels, would it be possible to actually HEAR the selected program while hitting my keyboard or a certain key on the keyboard? It would be a welcome feature for me
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That would be a nice feature indeed. What about a list of desired features for Meridian. Looks good to me....

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In previous Meridian versions, in the event editor, it was possible to select a quick menu with a mouse double click and that way, you could easily insert events such as note off, note on, velocity, modulation etc. etc. Something DOES happen when I doubleclick in the newest version of Meridian, but nothing more than some menu which seems not to function
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Well, I removed this feature for some time, because popup menu manager was not programmed the way I liked it. But it will be back.

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I know, I've said it too many times, but while playing, it would be great to see the current program on the left and not just the start program
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Yep, busy working on it.

About running Meridian using an emulator, I've never done that before, simply because Meridian is developped on my Turbo R.

Q: Are there going to be 2 midi drivers for 32 unique unlayered voices, rather than max 16 different voices at the same time 'just because of what MIDI dictates'. (voice as in: multimbral voice, not polyphony)

Q: when can we use all this?

Cheers, Michiel. Thx for answering Good to have you back

Congratz with the kid, Michiel! Hope we can see a new release of Meridian in the future as well (somewhere at the end of this year, perhaps? ), I would really like to get cracking at some nice OPL4 tunes! Keep up the amazingly good job!

Indeed. I'm thrilled working with FM voices again, together with ROM and RAM waves.......

Cangratulations MIDIPhonic.

I don't know if you have a PC.
But if you have can you try running your Meridian 3.0 on Bleu MSX for me. Since you know how you programmed it.
Maybe you can get it work on BleuMSX. And when you do or not can you tell me why and how you can get it to work??
PLZ can you help me PLZ!

This is just great program! I just tried it again last weekend. This is why I took a Yamaha syntethizer with me to the MSX info update party place.

Bug: When you drag a window, it does not move same speed as cursor normally moves.

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Cangratulations MIDIPhonic. I don't know if you have a PC. But if you have can you try running your Meridian 3.0 on Bleu MSX for me. Since you know how you programmed it. Maybe you can get it work on BleuMSX. And when you do or not can you tell me why and how you can get it to work?? PLZ can you help me PLZ!

If Meridian doesn't run on BlueMSX, then it's probably more of a blueMSX problem than a Meridian Problem.
Does blueMSX support MoonSound and/or the MIDI ports on the emulated turboR or Music Module?

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If Meridian doesn't run on BlueMSX, then it's probably more of a blueMSX problem than a Meridian Problem. Does blueMSX support MoonSound and/or the MIDI ports on the emulated turboR or Music Module?

blueMSX supports moonsound but not yet MIDI. MIDI support will be added in our next release which will be available in a couple of weeks. If someone is interested in trying the MIDI part, let me know and I'll send a beta.

Is it possible to make a somewhat lighter version of bluemsx (less thingies, less GUI orso..)? It's becoming a heavy application imho..
(sorry for OT )

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Quote: Cangratulations MIDIPhonic. I don't know if you have a PC. But if you have can you try running your Meridian 3.0 on Bleu MSX for me. Since you know how you programmed it. Maybe you can get it work on BleuMSX. And when you do or not can you tell me why and how you can get it to work?? PLZ can you help me PLZ! If Meridian doesn't run on BlueMSX, then it's probably more of a blueMSX problem than a Meridian Problem. Does blueMSX support MoonSound and/or the MIDI ports on the emulated turboR or Music Module?

Yes it supports Moonsound, but I think I do something wrong with BleuMSX. And that is why i think Meridian doesn't work on BleuMSX.
But Meridian can also work with Musicmodule and/or FM-Pac?
Please help?
If someone can get Meridian get to work on BleuMSX can he tell me how (s)he did it?

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Is it possible to make a somewhat lighter version of bluemsx (less thingies, less GUI orso..)? It's becoming a heavy application imho.. (sorry for OT )

Its actually possible. There is a quite well defined interface to a part that only covers the core emulation. Eventually I want to do a build based on this interface just to show how to do it. Using this interface it would be much easier to do for example a linux port of bluemsx or embed it in other emulator frameworks.

Then there is another os independent interface that includes the theme gui which is also an option to use for porting. This would include most of the GUI except the properties dialog and the config tools. Its only a few more primitives that has to be implemented to use this layer.

But I'm not sure when I'll get time to actually do it. The first one I'll do is probably a linux port of the core. Hopefully not too long into the future


(There is actually a tiny bit of windows code in the core still that I need to get rid of first and its the windows version of glob but that shouldn't be too hard to get rid of)

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But Meridian can also work with Musicmodule and/or FM-Pac?

AFAIK, the answer to this one is "no". You should be able to use the MIDI ports of the Music Module, but Meridian doesn't use the sound chips.

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Quote: But Meridian can also work with Musicmodule and/or FM-Pac? AFAIK, the answer to this one is "no". You should be able to use the MIDI ports of the Music Module, but Meridian doesn't use the sound chips.

That's right. Meridian is a MIDI tracker, so only the MIDI part of the Music Module is used and therefore the FM-PAC isn't used at all.