Yamaha-FM vs. Creative Labs CQM (Adlib OPL2 mode): Inoid - The Whale's Voyage

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Published on May 17, 2020 4:00:22 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHAYpVJxBo

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Whale's Voyage (1993)

Duration: 3:42

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Hello friends,

our next competitor to the well known Yamaha YMF262 OPL3-FM is CQM by Creative Labs- the company that rules the PC soundcard marked since the legendary Soundblaster 1.0. The early years in the 90s, Creative relied used Yamaha OPL FM synths but later on with the SoundBlaster 16 Vibra, they went on engineering their own OPL compatible FM-synth, called CQM (Creative Quadratic Modulation), most likely to save some license fees or maybe also for marketing reasons. Soundblasters without genuine Yamaha OPL3 are less enquired as CQM got bad talk in common forums - but is it realy that bad? Please make up your own mind, listen and tell us what you think in the comment section down below.

In this video we compare them playing a tune in OPL2 mode.

Record setup:
Siemens Intel 440BX Slot I ATX Mainboard, Pentium II 233 downclocked clocked at 133mhz. MS-DOS 6.2.

The Yamaha reference card of choice:
Aztech MMSN-837 ISA soundcard (branded as Packard-Bell Sound16A here), recorded via analog line-out (This is the reference-card for our comparisons because of the genuine Yamaha OPL3 YMF262 FM and the very good, low noise output signal quality. The YMF262 is fully backward compatible to the Yamaha YM3812 OPL2 and therefore should sound the same.

The CQM competitor:
Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE64 value CT4500 16bit PnP isa soundcard.

The record setup:
Acer Notebook running windows 7, recorded via Behringer UCA202 external USB Soundcard using the Line-Input. Software: Audacity.

The sound source:
Inoid - a track from the DOS-Game Whales Voyage, composed by Hannes Seifert.

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PC-SOUND-LEGACY

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