Game MIDI music in the early to mid 1990s, the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 and Yamaha MU80 were fantastic offerings and now great for a retro gaming PC setup.

MIDI files are extremely small as they contain only instructions of what to play, it's the Roland & Yamaha modules that contain the audio samples of hundreds of instruments. It did mean your game music could sound very different depending on your sound card's built-in MIDI capabilities or dedicated hardware.

#soundcanvas #mu80 #sc55 #midi

A found a reasonably priced Yamaha MU-80, which finally arrived. Came with an unexpected bonus, a UX96 USB MIDI Interface. I can use this one with the Mac (all my others are too new), so that's an unexpected win.

Yamaha's support is amazing. So far drivers and manuals available for everything, despite the age.

Sounds great.
Do need to do a battery replacement.

#yamaha #midi #mu80