Your intro is the perfect rendition of dumb corporate 90s videos. I love it. Brings back just the right amount of nostalgic trauma from working at a software company identical to the one in Office Space and wanting to die every time I drove to that horrible office of cubicles. 🤣 Awesome job, man. ❤
Glad to see someone else interested in and enjoying the SC-7! In my experience, you'd easily mistake it for the SC-55 in most DOS games with General MIDI soundtracks, and that's a great thing, considering the SC-55 is what most of those were written for. :) I've been very happy with what this little box can do. It has the SC-55's most important features: the high-quality General MIDI instruments, plus the GS reverb, chorus and (most of the) drumkits. I particularly like how PASSPORT.MID sounds on it, with the chorus on the honky-tonk piano. It's not _quite_ an SC-55 though... if you want listen to stuff designed specifically for a Sound Canvas/Roland GS that isn't intended to be General MIDI compatible, it can be a bit hit-and-miss whether it'll work on the SC-7.
The SC-7 *is* limited to the basic 128 GM presets from the SC-55, it doesn't have the extra GS "variation" instruments, but that still means it has most of the SC-55's sounds including lots of great synthy ones; most of the stuff that's missing is things like extra sound effects, which aren't that important. Roland were also kind enough to include some of the GS drumkits on the SC-7, like the TR-808 kit and the POWER kit, and it has the SC-55's reverb and chorus. Most of the GS features for editing the sounds are gone, but you can do filter sweeps, which is nice.
