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yamaha's virtual acoustic physical modelling “VL” synthesis sure was something. those wind instruments in particular… realistic expressiveness, unrealistic pitch changes, it's beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShvfnDLZfA0

「モジュラーシンセシスプラグインシステム」とは何ですか？
what is “Modular Synthesis Plug-in System”?

「XGプラグインシステム」と同じですか？
is it different to “XG Plug-in System”?

eating soooo many poppy seeds rn. gonna get high marks on all the drug tests

the emulator developer experience

OH: “yes, i am not homeless to be clear, just out of Gregory House”

maintaining an open-source game emulator has really perverse incentives. users do not care whether your code is good or clean or properly tested. if a horrible hack gets a popular game running, they will plagiarise your WIP patch, make their own build of it, and distribute both…

…at which point it becomes very tempting to just move to a completely closed development model, where we only publish code that is complete enough to land on trunk. and already we are like half of the way there with touchHLE, but it's tempting to go all in. perverse incentives!

alternative timeline where gateware is called firmware because it's something between software and hardware

“The Last Format War” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G9n0vJiKXw

f4mi knocked it out of the park with this one (it's about HD DVD)

And on the pedestal these words appear:

MY NAME IS YAMAHA, KING OF DTM:
LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!

No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

(the fruits of a weekend's research, documenting the Yamaha MU series of XG/General MIDI sound modules: https://dtm.noyu.me/wiki/Yamaha_MU_series#Comparison_of_major_desktop_modules)

language lesson:

when something is exactly right, you say ｢genau｣
and when it's not right at all, you say „chigau“