Date   : Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:59:11 +0000
From   : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: Re: Toccata music in MP3 format

On 30 Jan 2006, at 09:11, Richard_Talbot-Watkins@... wrote:
>> I wondered about that. Maybe BeebEm3's sound isn't that accurate?
>> I don't know because I don't have a real beeb at the moment to try
>> it on.
>
> In my opinion, the emulator with the most accurate sound emulation  
> (for the
> PC) is Tom Seddon's Model B.  Neither BeebEm 3 or B-Em seem to have  
> the
> periodic noise tuned correctly (e.g. the Icarus theme tune sounds  
> terrible
> on both of these).  BeebEm also seems to emulate the volume scale  
> linearly
> rather than exponentially, which means that notes sometimes appear  
> not to
> drop off quickly enough.

Ah. I don't have any Windows PCs here I'm afraid. And I still haven't  
checked out the Mac version of B-Em that was posted here crashes on  
startup for me. I've added fixing it and posting a patch to my to-do  
list - but it's a helluva long list :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net