Yamaha TX7 x2, OPL3 x2 (Clouds.mid) 

This is my favorite version of Clouds.mid on RU-vid. Great use of FM!

I look at this video and suddenly, it feels like I'm back in 1994. Wow, the nostalgia as a child is overwhelming!

"And so the hero returned to their homeland, the balance of the universe had been restored and everything was made right once more. The End." _Credits roll_ Beautiful version

Yamaha's sound chips like in Adlib and the Sega Genesis kinda take after the DX7. So, it makes sense to play them all together like this. ^w^ I've often thought about how the song, Steppin' Out, would sound in OPL3 synth. I think it'd translate fairly well.

@SouthwesternEagle They were close, but not identical. The SEGA Genesis used a YM2612. It was an Operator Type N. These are Operator Type L based chips. But they do sound similar, and I believe they take the same sound bank data.

@Eep386 Yeah, the bells were done on the opl3. The TX-7 only has six sine wave operators. You can modulate these operators to create a sawtooth wave. I don't care for the OPL3's saw wave by itself either, but it can be used to modulate other operators to create cool sounds.

@rockerzac99 The laptops contain the OPL3 chip on their soundcards. An OPL3 chip can be found in almost every soundcard from the mid 90's.

@rockerzac99 You can buy an OPL3 laptop very cheaply on ebay, which is where I bought the two in the video. Usually if a PC laptop that is a Pentium II or under has sound capabilities it will also have the OPL3.

Great stuff!

Super

AWESOME

Cool FM singing here ;-)

@rockerzac99 No, I don't think that IBM laptop used the OPL3 chip. Most of those laptops used the Mwave DSP which was IBM's own soundcard. The Mwave didn't use the Yamaha OPL3.

Note: this is also synth version.

WOW! What a good stuff! I really liked this, I'm a big fan of OPL-3 synthesizers sound cards. :) Man, please help me. I've an old computer with Sound Blaster 16 installed. I want to use this computer as a MIDI instrument, like you have done here. The Symphonix FM Editor can allows a MIDI controller (like a sequencer, a midi keyboard or even another computer with DAW or a tracker software) to control an OPL3 synthesizer embedded on a Sound Card? Thank you, and sorry me for the asking so much!

GOOD yamaha

This is identical synthesis to the sound of the Sega Genesis. I believe they used the same chip.

you pro mixah

Too bad you never made more of these

@maxfischer36 Oh, I just remembered. A user on the soundshock forum emailed it to me, so its not on the web.

@rchrdccrs Those were top-of-the-line back in 1993.

@Doommaster1994 I made an annotation showing the link since RU-vid doesn't allow url's to be entered into comments.

This is how Autechre did their Oversteps stuff,most probably.Shake off the cheesy sugary tune and add some weirdness and IDM genius and,voila,there you have it!!!!!!!!!

Which one is that analog sounding pulse lead coming from?

@opl3toshiba Would an IBM Thinkpad 755C be one with the OPL3 in it?

Sorry, just on last question. What model are these Toshibas?

What OPL3 synths were used? Standalone or sound card?

Yamaha, sounds much efficient when Japanese invented their 1st synthesizer in the 80's

@opl3toshiba Where can I get one of these?

@Doommaster1994 Try it now. It goes directly to the mediafire file hosting page.

Toshiba T4900ct