I know this ringtone player uses different synth engines (NEC/Rohm/etc.), but I don't know what's the specific name of them, the preferences of the player only shays "Ring Tone LSI Simulator Type xx". My favorites are the NEC ones (Type 04 and 02 (I assume it's NEC because it sounds almost identical)). But maybe I'm wrong. Type 01 and 03 sounds similar to a weird MIDI sound module called "MIDISUKE2002". Would be cool to make a SoundFont of this NEC synth.
I noticed the same about the Type 01/03 sounding like that elusive "MIDISUKE2002" synth. Not sure what the story behind that is. I do know that Type 04 is most similar to the NEC uPD9993, and 01/03 are similar to Rohm synth LSIs but I'm not sure what those or anything else corresponds to.
@@romphonix I'm sorry, I tried to send 2 URLs but RU-vid blocks the comment or something. So I've researched a bit about NEC PCM sound generator LSIs. An archived page of NEC Electronics confused me a little regarding the PCM sound generation system. I thought the PCM sound generation system was made by NEC themselves, but it appears it was made by a Japanese company called FueTrek, or maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but here's what it says (since I can't send the link): "PCM Sound Generation Technology FueTrek Co., Ltd. provides our melody LSIs with Sound Generator IP(Intellectual property) for mobile phones. The Sound Generator IP is PCM Sound Generator which provides more realistic sound quality, and it includes the Double Wave Table system and the Tone Split system. Double Wave Table system The Double Wave Table system is the technology which generates the tone of a musical instrument with two Wave Tables. Deep and rich sounds are generated by overlaying the basic Wave Table and the pitch shifted Wave Table. Tone Split system The Tone Split system is the technology which uses Wave Tables optimized for a certain range of key. An acoustic musical instrument does not have a uniform waveform by the height of a key. By choosing the Wave Table suitable for the key, natural sounds can be created." Apparently, NEC Electronics not only linked to Faith's authoring tools, they provided "Evaluation Boards" for the LSIs they produced.
@@pmd9801 Very nicely done research there. For what it's worth Faith also had a hand in developing Qualcomm's CMX synth engine which runs in the QDSP2000 core of Qualcomm SoCs (mainly found in CDMA phones and a significant portion of HSDPA ones as well) Not very related but I still feel it's worth noting that the founder of Faith Inc, Hajime Hirasawa, also wrote the soundtrack for the original Star Fox.
