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ok tweeting about stuff with a wide audience has been going badly for me lately so here's something incredibly niche:
it's incredible how good a job yamaha did with the tg300b mode on the cbx-k1xg. the unofficial gs compatibility is far more extensive than i would have expected!
they didn't just include equivalents for all the sc-55mkii gs patches, but also many sc-88 ones (i think there's even more on higher-end xg devices), and there's all the cm-64/cm-32l/cm-32p/mt-32 patches in there, and it actually supports a lot of the gs sysex messages!!!
the song i wrote for "power! gs"? it relies on a relatively obscure gs sysex feature, and somehow it actually plays back correctly on the tg300b mode! i was amazed when i first discovered this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs&t=42m19s
now to wait for the algorithm to pick this up and show it to the huge group of people who care about 1995 computer music products. i'm sure they'll be here any day now
incredibly yamaha did roland compatibility better than roland themselves. there's an actual "c/m mode" where the cbx-k1xg (and many other xg devices, e.g. the mu series) emulate an mt-32. roland merely provide an mt-32 patch bank (to be clear, neither provides la synthesis tho)
oh damn now that i have something that can simulate an mt-32 i have to like stream myself playing monkey island or something right. that's like the law
oooh yes it reproduces the monkey island title theme beautifully, actually amazingly well, i definitely have to stream this!