12-26-2015, 08:54 AM
>"While Genesis did have the superior sound chip"
No. Not in the slightest.
Genesis used a fork of the popular yamaha synthesizer, the YM2612.while this family of ym chips were used a lot in arcade boards, it is still a primitive technology compared to snes SPC700.
As sega kinda sucked with hardware creation (see all those weird add-ons for the Genesis itself), the ym 2612 was an amalgam of the chips - the ym synth board, the DAC sampling and PSG oscillator that is used in master system. As they are all separate chips, composers had to program each one of them to make music, which was troublesome - and some quirks didn't allow DAC to play in unison with all ym synth channels or use the white noise generator without distortion under certain circumstances.
The snes SPC700 had 8 identical channels and could emulate any instrument via sampling - once you sample all you want, you can make music without fearing impediments of any type.
So you can prefer the Genesis chip and all, it is indeed a capable music synth. But to say it is superior to the spc700 is saying that windows 98 is better than windows7 purely because of preference, and not the features.
No. Not in the slightest.
Genesis used a fork of the popular yamaha synthesizer, the YM2612.while this family of ym chips were used a lot in arcade boards, it is still a primitive technology compared to snes SPC700.
As sega kinda sucked with hardware creation (see all those weird add-ons for the Genesis itself), the ym 2612 was an amalgam of the chips - the ym synth board, the DAC sampling and PSG oscillator that is used in master system. As they are all separate chips, composers had to program each one of them to make music, which was troublesome - and some quirks didn't allow DAC to play in unison with all ym synth channels or use the white noise generator without distortion under certain circumstances.
The snes SPC700 had 8 identical channels and could emulate any instrument via sampling - once you sample all you want, you can make music without fearing impediments of any type.
So you can prefer the Genesis chip and all, it is indeed a capable music synth. But to say it is superior to the spc700 is saying that windows 98 is better than windows7 purely because of preference, and not the features.
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