I like the way the front panel display is emulated. I always liked that front panel display. And Leisure Suit Larry had a custom message for it?! Wow!

MT32pi is just amazing. Pretty cheap, too, all things considered (especially since a lot of people have a Raspberry Pi laying around unused they can use - I had a Pi3 that was gathering dust).

Absolutely fascinating stuff - saved for later reference, for when I get my MISTer!

Awesome video 🤘

I was just thinking when I saw your MISTer video "what a great selection of artifacts... I'm surprised there's no MT-32 back there." Well, here it is!

Very very Nice!! Can’t wait to run Octamed 4 with this using the Amiga emulator!

Extremely informative and well-put-together video. Thanks!

Another excellent video covering miSTer! Thank you sir ✊👏

This is an *excellent* comparison video. Only thing I could have wished for is knowing which soundfont you were using to compare the SC-55. May have missed that part though, if you did say. Love that you didn't feel the need to fire up Monkey Island once, and instead shared some other classic Mt-32 games. I'll be sending people here for the MIDI overview on MiSTer, going forward. Thanks for putting this together.

Was looking for some info on MiSTer MIDI support for the X68000 core and did not expect to see something this comprehensive on MIDI support for MiSTer in general. Excellent research and video. I didn't even know the MT-32 Pi even existed. I'm gonna set one up. Loved that you had the real hardware to test as well. Subbed and look forward to diving into your other videos. Cheers!

Excellent video.

Awesome! Thanks for the Video!

Ah good, I was gonna accuse you of adventure game company bias, until DOTT showed up ;-p

This was SO useful. Thank you.

Thanks for giving in to populair demand!

Wow this really helped me!

I really hope the Sharp X68000 core gets picked back up at some point & fine tuned - That is one system that could REALLY take advantage of all these MIDI synthesizers.

There's another option too. I think that little blue MIDI IO box ought to be able to connect to a Roland UM-ONE as well (these are somewhere around $50). This can then connect to any device with a USB port that can run any suitable MIDI emulator. I'm in the process of repurposing an old Mac Mini running WinXP and the Falcosoft Midi Player, connected from a Soundblaster 16 via a UM-ONE right now. It works great! I just heard the original Warcraft via the Arachno soundfont-- it sounds so much better than SB16 FM Synth-- night and day!

This video is very informative, but I don't think the MT-32 Pi sends audio through the "DAC" to the MiSTer. The pinout on the MT-32 Pi Github page says the audio is I2S, which is digital.

So cool

geeezz King's Quest, Sam & Max, Leisure Suit Larry... take me way back!

I’ve got an mt32 pi in the post and should drop in the next couple of days. Really looking forward to loosing weeks on the Amiga , Atari st and ao486 cores. I know that the Lucas arts games had midi sound tracks that I’ve never managed to hear back in the day. Thank you for this video dude. Really informative.

Super cool video. I love the idea of running Munt on a nearby PC since it's a zero-cost solution. But then you only get Munt's output on the Mister FPGA. Does anyone know if a solution has been found for this (in the vein of zero-cost)?

MT32pi is pretty neat. But oh man. Those original machines do sound a lot better😵 I really don’t like where this is going for my space and wallet😂 Am I correct in understanding I could just load the SF2 files for say Ocarina of Time and use the MiSTer midi I/O with a midi keyboard and I’d get to play songs using the OoT soundfont? Or is a midi output required to do so? (No audio from the mister)?

감사합니다.

I'm a bit confused how you hook up the mixer from the MT32 to the Mister.

I wonder if the difference can have something to do with the dac in the pie not being that good.

Are there anywhere in Europe to buy the MT32-Pi Hat? UK is too expensive because of import fees...

Hello and thank for thi useful video. I'm struggling with the Windows way, anyway when I launch a midi from ao486 the sound doesn't come from MiSTer speakers but from PC one, is it intended to work in this way or I'm missing something? Thank you :)

question: at 28:00 , the midi, sound does is just play, the same midi, music, for each game level, or will it change, with events happening on screen,?

using option with real hardware... is there any way to get back the audio into the mister and mix it there? or do I have to take the hdmiout of the mister and mix into that?

For DOOM in particular I could definitely tell the difference between the real hardware & emulated. The real hardware seemed to have a rolloff on each note that sounded really nice, while the emulated version did not & did not sound as nice as a result. Am not sure if that could come down to setup or what but it's notable. Is there any reason the MISTer itself couldn't emulate the MT-32 itself for DOOM without issues? I noticed you didn't do a comparison for that for some reason.

Mystifying MIDI on the MiSTer!

your video is always excellent!!! thank you so much for MT-32 pi. I had no idea that it CAN be used with other computer system like Atari ST & Amiga. how about Japanese x6800 series ? I wish I know which game on each system supports MIDI module/ MT-32 pi. your video always covers the most important thing I really appreciate it. only my nitpicking is the choice of Doom music... come one man.. you can select better signature Doom music :) LOL

Will the Mister MIDI work with the Mister emulating the Amiga A1200 running OctaMed ?

Is anyone using MiSTer to run vintage MIDI sequencers like Creator on the ST engine?

Wow great vid. I have a MT32-pi but no idea I could just plug it in to the MiSTer!

Do you suppose that using a faster and/or overclocked Pi would overcome the stuttering? That being said, it looks like the Mt32-pi had won't fit on a Pi with a heatsink or a fan so I don't know if that's possible. So many other questions pop to mind. Time to do some research. Thanks for the video!

So you can't use something like the UM-ONE and connect directly?

I was confused when the video ended and I hadn't heard monkey Island yet

Do you have to download the AO486 core? I don’t see it in my computer list of systems.

Do you recommend to use a dac between the mister and the speakers? If so which one would you recommend?

10:43 How do you get voiceover with MIDI?! If that’s just Sound Blaster mixed with MIDI, why didn’t they compose with Sound Blaster in the first place?

So how does one disable midilink once the install script runs?

hi i did it as you explained: Installed midi Started A486 Selected local with fluidsynth in UAT Started Duke Nukem 3D setup Selected sound can as for music But no sound What am i missing?

Your version of Wing Commander II seemed to be running very slow.

Great vid. I wasn't expecting the comparisons to sound so different. The first track it sounded like the mt32-pi was missing the reverb and then the last one sounded like it had way too much. The balance and panning of the instruments seemed pretty different too. The second one was good though. Also the Sam & Max part at 20:11 has the music so loud you can't really hear the sound effects, I thought they were missing at first.

Does the MT-32 Pi improve non pc games like nes, snes, genesis, etc?

Real hardware has a much greater reverb / sound depth... I thought they would sound the same.... so the emulation is not yet there?

Dang it, the OG MIDI hardware sounds *better* than the PI Why???

What happened to the percussion on the mt32-pi? Sounds awful, honestly.

I've only watched up to 6 mins so far, but I think you should explain the "why" in extensive detail someone should use a MiSTer vs just regular software emulation? Regular software emulation for MIDI and games is already great! Most of us likely have a 2nd laptop hanging around that would work perfectly to be our MIDI sound module if we wanted it for games or something else. I bet a small Windows netbook or tablet would work fine as an external sound card for vintage PC games that require an external MIDI, if there aren't already easy software emulations people can run right from the games on a single PC for doing this. On my software Apple ][ emulation for example (no FPGA box required), with in the popular Apple ][ emulators, I can emulate the Mockingboard sound card which was optional for Apple ][ games. In my Amiga emulation (which is clock cycle accurate with no FPGA needed), the emulators are able to provide all kinds of optional hardware devices built into the emulators. I've been heavily into software emulation since 1985 on the Amiga, and followed it to the PC platform where it has dominated since the mid 90s. I've built 4 MAME machines, and and am a musician running many software synths. I've yet to find a use for a MiSTer as I'm perfectly satisfied with software emulation on many fronts. I see people running classic games on a MiSTer, with an LCD screen. And they think that is authentic! Don't they know how critical the CRT is? I think many of the MiSTer people have all the wrong priorities. Software emulation can be great, and even clock cycle accurate and has been under heavy development for a very long time, getting perfected. But please explain to me, I'm happy to listen, and open minded. I have around 25 arcade machines with several custom built emulators & dedicated games, dozens of soft synths I use extensively but also more than a dozen hardware synths. I haven't needed FPGA yet to do what I want. Maybe there could be an odd by game or something that was poorly emulated and better emulated for MiSTer? Generally, recreations are only as good as the people making them. That's why I know a handful of people years ago that switched back to PC emulation and sold off their MiSTer when they felt software emulation did a better or equal job of the task.

Doom had music?

sound delay

Shhhh, you don't know what you are talking about.

there is also the bulky midi 32