DalSoRi reserve list

Por edoz

Prophet (2482)

05-09-2014, 21:53

I'm always surprised by the amount of different hardware that's available now days

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

06-09-2014, 22:24

@edoz: me too. MSX is still alive although some people said it was dead years ago. But they are wrong

Por anonymous

incognito ergo sum (116)

07-09-2014, 01:50

edoz wrote:

I'm always surprised by the amount of different hardware that's available now days

Me too but even more surprised about its quality!! 100% professional.

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

08-09-2014, 07:51

My mistake, 20 people must be interested in order to achieve a 2nd batch. Otherwise it will be too expensive. 5 people interested by now.

Por FiXato

Scribe (1742)

08-09-2014, 23:53

Thanks @Retrofan for letting us know. I've updated the newspost accordingly.

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

09-09-2014, 18:40

Thanks FiXato!

6 people interested by now for second batch...

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

10-09-2014, 20:09

Good to see how the gaps other groups/people leave behind are getting filled with a good kind of passion...

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

10-09-2014, 20:11

By the way... Sign me up as well... I'm curious about its better sound quality

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

10-09-2014, 22:54

@Meits: great! I will put you on the list! Any chance to convince Wolf or other musicians as well to buy?
8 people interested right now for 2nd batch...

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

11-09-2014, 07:00

Can't speak for Wolf_ but ehr, he won't

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

14-09-2014, 10:09

10 people interested by now...
@Valkyr: please sent me your mailaddress...

It's also possible to do a batch for 10 units, but then the price will be 10 Euro higher each unit.
Let's wait and see if we can get 10 more people interested. Reservation will close October 15.
Could be a nice Christmas "gift" this year

Por yzi

Champion (444)

14-09-2014, 11:21

Thinking about it. After this batch, how many MSX OPL4 cartridges are there in the world, total
- MoonSound : 100-200? More?
- DalSoRi : 50-100?
- OPL4 ShockWave : 50-100?
- Wozblaster : 20?

Totalling something like 300-500, all in all?

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

14-09-2014, 11:17

My favourite song atm: Fading Away (17:40) from "The Rhythm" music disk. Does someone know who made this music disk?

Por FiXato

Scribe (1742)

14-09-2014, 12:31

heh, that's some old school House music right there Retrofan

Also, someone should do a nice comparison review in with video/audio recordings of all the specs, features and audio quality of all available opl4 extensions.

Por yzi

Champion (444)

14-09-2014, 12:59

I'll do the comparison review, just send me: Wozblaster, OPL4 Shockwave and DalSoRi.

Maybe it would be possible to arrange a distributed test, as long as the test setup can be standardized. I have a Zoom H4n recorder / USB audio interface, which is quite common. It has all digitally controlled settings like input gains etc. and I think the quality of the inputs, converters etc. should be quite consistent between different units. Anyone else here have an H4n?

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

14-09-2014, 12:56

That whole disk is made by Edwin van der Heide aka Impuls Corporation... He was the only guy at MGF who was willing and able to create stuff in the era after Jan van Valburg left.
In the later years he also coded for us after our coder left the scene in 1996.

Por yzi

Champion (444)

14-09-2014, 14:22

If it helps raise interest in OPL4 cartridges, I've put my MoonSound player project on Sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sootsound/
It's very much pre-alpha, but maybe someone can have fun with the source codes.
There's a precompiled .dsk in the Files section, ready to be run on an MSX or an emulator. It won't work in R800 mode yet.

Por Manuel

Ascended (19461)

14-09-2014, 14:24

Retrofan: where did you get that disk?

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

14-09-2014, 14:44

@Manuel: I don't have that disk, but saw it on Youtube...

Por anonymous

incognito ergo sum (116)

15-09-2014, 18:22

Good opportunity to promote the Moonsound software (current or future) if more people own this cartridge and compatible ones.

Por marcoo

Expert (111)

17-09-2014, 16:16

Yeah where is that disk never seen or Hear it before

Por Yodd

Rookie (28)

17-09-2014, 17:13

I wouldn't mind a link to specific, recommended Moonsound compatible music disks.

Por msd

Paragon (1515)

17-09-2014, 19:00

http://members.chello.nl/m.delorme/WOLFDEMO.LZH

Por ToriHino

Paladin (855)

17-09-2014, 19:55

And you can ofcourse also use it to play SID songs :

http://www.msx.org/downloads/robosid

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

19-09-2014, 19:30

More people interested in the 2nd batch of DalSoRi? Currently 10 people have pre-ordered, so still 10 available (total of 20 units). Take your chance to get this cool Konami-case sized OPL4 cartridge! Probably this will be the last batch produced for Europe due to the OPL4 chips (difficult to find).

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

19-09-2014, 19:36

Maybe MRC could upload all public domain OPL4 music disks / demo's?

Por Manuel

Ascended (19461)

19-09-2014, 23:38

Maybe you (the MRC users!) could upload them to MRC? (MRC is not a person...)

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

20-09-2014, 12:20

@Manuel: that's what I meant, but I don't know their names...
Maybe you can upload as well, then I also search for them...

Por Manuel

Ascended (19461)

20-09-2014, 20:55

Ah, then I misread it, sorry

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

23-09-2014, 15:49

Slowly going, but 11 people interested for second batch, 9 to go.
Last chance to get one, after this batch there will not come another...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

28-09-2014, 16:32

Deadline for reservation will be October 15th.

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

28-09-2014, 17:52

And what if you don't reach 20?

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

28-09-2014, 18:41

@Meits: no worries, then you still can have it, but the price will be somewhat higher (about 10-15 euro each unit) Anyway, it will be a nice Christmas present for you and the others!

Por giangiacomo.zaffini

Champion (267)

29-09-2014, 11:41

If I have my own DalSoRi cartridge I'll try for sure

BouKiChi MoonDriver

I will try to port it out of MSX-DOS in order to run it on BIOS/BASIC environment or building it as a ROM cartridge.

It should be an interesting job, isn't it? B-)

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

29-09-2014, 18:40

Yes, this is indeed a nice MML song showing the capabilities of the OPL4...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

30-09-2014, 20:11

14 DalSoRi boards reserved right now 6 to go!

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

02-10-2014, 15:47

yzi wrote:

Thinking about it. After this batch, how many MSX OPL4 cartridges are there in the world, total
- MoonSound : 100-200? More?
- DalSoRi : 50-100?
- OPL4 ShockWave : 50-100?
- Wozblaster : 20?

Totalling something like 300-500, all in all?

I asked Jun about DalSoRi:
About 40~45 DalSoRis were sold and probably about 20 more DalSoRis will be produced in the 2nd batch, so around 60...

Por yzi

Champion (444)

02-10-2014, 16:41

Ok, I think the total number of units in the world might be close to 300, at most. So it's roughly as common as a Ferrari Enzo... According to Wikipedia, 400 Ferrari Enzos have been produced.

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

03-10-2014, 19:30

16 reservations, 4 to go
@yzi: don't you want a DalSoRi?

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

04-10-2014, 13:19

17 reservations, only 3 available... Don't miss your chance to get one!

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

05-10-2014, 18:35

18 reserved, only 2 available...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

06-10-2014, 07:43

only 1 available!!! hurry up!!

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

06-10-2014, 17:37

Ah, starting to look forward to replace my Moonsound with it

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

06-10-2014, 18:00

All DalSoRi's for second batch reserved! Reservation time closed.
Check your mail for payment instructions.

Por giangiacomo.zaffini

Champion (267)

06-10-2014, 19:46

Wow! What a dramatic rush!
P.S. first to pay I guess!

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

06-10-2014, 20:10

Great initiative...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

08-10-2014, 21:42

5 DalSoRi's paid by now...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

10-10-2014, 19:14

8 DalSoRi's are paid right now. Who's next?

Por mesiasmsx

Prophet (3444)

10-10-2014, 20:09

+ 10

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

13-10-2014, 07:59

10 people paid

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

16-10-2014, 10:30

Meits wrote:

That whole disk is made by Edwin van der Heide aka Impuls Corporation... He was the only guy at MGF who was willing and able to create stuff in the era after Jan van Valburg left.
In the later years he also coded for us after our coder left the scene in 1996.

Hey Meits, is this disk public domain? Maybe you could ask him if you may put it on your website and over here at MRC? We want all OPL4 disks!

Por yzi

Champion (444)

16-10-2014, 18:57

Here's a new "music disk" with one MoonSound song, an OPL4+YRW-801 version of the short tune in the Aekrus intro from 1997.
http://www.kameli.net/~yzi/aekrus_moonsound_dsk.zip

Por anonymous

incognito ergo sum (116)

16-10-2014, 19:55

Retrofan wrote:

We want all OPL4 disks!

Really? I could make a selection from my unreleased stuff... it's quite a lot. But I'm not really in the mood to make a menu etc.

Por Manuel

Ascended (19461)

16-10-2014, 20:30

You could just add a standard generic Moonsound replayer, maybe? (From SRM?)

Por JohnHassink

Ambassador (5670)

17-10-2014, 14:46

Maybe. Also, going to ask mister Cnossen if he is okay with publishing his Moonsound music files.

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

19-10-2014, 10:43

@JohnHassink: that would be cool!
Update: 16 DalSoRi's are paid right now.

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

19-10-2014, 11:38

John, I got some, not enough, tunes lying around... I'd like to throw them on the same stack as yours...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

19-10-2014, 14:31

Hi, there was a cancellation, so there is still 1 left, hurry, take your chance!

Por Grauw

Ascended (10767)

31-10-2014, 18:24

If you still want one of these beautiful, compact and great-sounding MoonSound cartridges, Made In Korea, please let Retrofan or me know! There is still 1 left.

(I helped Retrofan with the last one so he could get the order out, but since I already have one I do not need another .)

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

31-10-2014, 18:57

Thanks Grauw, much appreciated!

Por anonymous

incognito ergo sum (116)

01-11-2014, 11:34

Meits wrote:

John, I got some, not enough, tunes lying around... I'd like to throw them on the same stack as yours...

It's happening as we speak... Some of the old school 90's muzak guys from the Dutch "demos for Tilburg and Zandvoort fairs scene" are gathering to release their OPL4 music... Jorito, John Hassink and I are already listed in the credits... At least three other guys are to be confirmed...
The replayer is already working and does have a trip to memory lane look...

This beast with at least 34 quality OPL4 tracks *IS* going to be released... And it might as well be very soon... We hope to let people who bought this new hardware enjoy it to the fullest...

Edit: MOA is confirmed as well...

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

31-10-2014, 21:23

@Meits: cool!
The DalSoRi's are on their way to Europe!
Thanks Jun!

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

02-11-2014, 03:18

Right on time...
I think something blew up my Moonsound just now
I did load a wavekit when I hit paused, gave one big garbling noise afterwards and went silent...

Por Grauw

Ascended (10767)

02-11-2014, 20:27

Ouch .

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

05-11-2014, 18:41

@Meits: yes, ouch, too bad, hope it will work again soon... but... to cheer you up, today I received a package from Korea Will try to send some of them this Saturday already Where can we download that music disk?

Por giangiacomo.zaffini

Champion (267)

05-11-2014, 18:43

Is it already X-mas?

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

06-11-2014, 19:02

Retrofan: I'm working on it together with six other musicians who already were famous in the 90s... Only the replayer is done. The rest, the gfx and the selection of the music isn't done yet...
Just one tiny little newsflash: One disk is not enough and a disk is released only when the replayer's 34 slots are totally filled...
Release will most probably not be before the end of the year... Nijmegen is a goal, but only when completed... It will be downloadable from MRC

Por Grauw

Ascended (10767)

06-11-2014, 19:13

Grauw wrote:

If you still want one of these beautiful, compact and great-sounding MoonSound cartridges, Made In Korea, please let Retrofan or me know! There is still 1 left.

Still available.

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

08-11-2014, 19:05

Hi guys, today 11 DalSoRi's where shipped to their new owners Shipment was done to Spain, Australia, Japan and Norway! The other countries including The Netherlands will follow in the next week when I have time again...

Por Durany

Rookie (29)

09-11-2014, 13:32

Huy, Very nice to hear that Retrofan!

Thanks in advance

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

11-11-2014, 19:03

The remaining DalSoRi's are packed and the last ones will be shipped this Thursday. Be careful with unpacking as it is very rare hardware

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

13-11-2014, 17:07

All DalSoRi's are shipped right now and everyone has received their tracking number in the mailbox.
Thanks for the business all of you and have fun with it! Let's make some noise!!!!

Por meits

Scribe (6542)

13-11-2014, 18:18

Working on that

Por Retrofan

Paragon (1339)

13-11-2014, 18:33

Much appreciated Meits!

Por pceworld

Rookie (19)

20-11-2014, 12:45

I wan't to buy one ...... is too late?

Por Grauw

Ascended (10767)

20-11-2014, 19:51

The extra DalSoRi I have is reserved until January 24, 2015… Sorry .

Por anonymous

incognito ergo sum (116)

25-02-2015, 18:24

JohnHassink wrote:

Maybe. Also, going to ask mister Cnossen if he is okay with publishing his Moonsound music files.

Meits wrote:

John, I got some, not enough, tunes lying around... I'd like to throw them on the same stack as yours...

It's happening as we speak... Some of the old school 90's muzak guys from the Dutch "demos for Tilburg and Zandvoort fairs scene" are gathering to release their OPL4 music... Jorito, John Hassink and I are already listed in the credits... At least three other guys are to be confirmed...
The replayer is already working and does have a trip to memory lane look...

This beast with at least 34 quality OPL4 tracks *IS* going to be released... And it might as well be very soon... We hope to let people who bought this new hardware enjoy it to the fullest...

Edit: MOA is confirmed as well...

Promo of Dutch Moonsound Veterans

Dutch Moonsound Veterans is a one time collective of most of the guys who brought you scene music in the blooming 90s MSX demo, game and music disk years.

The guys responsible for the music (including the handles and teams they were known by):

Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans a.k.a. Master of Audio (Emphasys)
John Hassink a.k.a. Demonseed (Sargon, Umax and lots more as freelancer)
Jelle Jelsma a.k.a. Meits, Tweety, Joan (MSX-Club Friesland-Noord, Near Dark, MSX Gebruikersgroep Friesland)
Ruud van de Moosdijk a.k.a. Mr. Rudy, Zodiac (Zodiac)
Robert Vroemisse a.k.a. Roopblock, Yum (Sargon, Team Bomba)
Jorrith Schaap a.k.a. Soundwave, Jorito (Future Disk, Stuff, Hegega, Flying Bytes)
Tristan Zondag a.k.a. Omega (Impact, Dreamscape, Techno Crew)
Hans Cnossen a.k.a. Kid Cnozz (Fuzzy Logic, Sunrise, Team Element, Umax)
Bart Roijmans a.k.a. Low Profile (Compjoetania, NOP)
Danilo Danisi a.k.a. Dandan (Instrument of Darkness, Abyss)

Graphics: Robert Vroemisse
Code: Meits, Master of Audio

Three 720kB disks with 34 tracks each compatible with a standard 128kB sampleram Moonsound
One rar with loose files (and a HD image) with 34 tracks with big wavekits, dedicated wavekits and what didn't fit any of the first three disks

4x34 tracks coming your way very soon... We're finalizing the production :)

Por Grauw

Ascended (10767)

25-02-2015, 18:57

Waiting in anticipation...

Por valkyre

Hero (661)

25-02-2015, 22:29

My dalsori has been waiting for this, so have i!

Por Yodd

Rookie (28)

03-03-2015, 04:38

Looking forward to this!

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