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Is TPA alone enough for you, or are you also buying into Zen’s Williams app?
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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 292925" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>I was trying to find the podcast we did with Norman Stepansky (TPA audio engineer) that addressed this, but it was prior to our YouTube days. He went into it with us though, that they had tried a few different methods of recording. Ultimately though they couldn't go straight off the ROM because it would lose sync with the game over periods of time. Centaur is the table that gave him the most fits with this. For Firepower II he actually recorded every single sound variation for the bonus count and then assembled them, a painstaking process of over 400 variations.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the choices FarSight made with TPA came down to saving space. They wanted one master build of a table from which they could port it over to all the platforms they had to deliver to. Obviously mobile was where the compromises needed to be made most, but every platform took its hits. I believe PS4 users had and still do terrible sound issues that weren't there at the start but once introduced, never went away.</p><p></p><p>If you ever wonder just how different the audio is between TPA and Zen, load up Safe Cracker. It is such a noticeably dynamic difference between the two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 292925, member: 134"] I was trying to find the podcast we did with Norman Stepansky (TPA audio engineer) that addressed this, but it was prior to our YouTube days. He went into it with us though, that they had tried a few different methods of recording. Ultimately though they couldn't go straight off the ROM because it would lose sync with the game over periods of time. Centaur is the table that gave him the most fits with this. For Firepower II he actually recorded every single sound variation for the bonus count and then assembled them, a painstaking process of over 400 variations. A lot of the choices FarSight made with TPA came down to saving space. They wanted one master build of a table from which they could port it over to all the platforms they had to deliver to. Obviously mobile was where the compromises needed to be made most, but every platform took its hits. I believe PS4 users had and still do terrible sound issues that weren't there at the start but once introduced, never went away. If you ever wonder just how different the audio is between TPA and Zen, load up Safe Cracker. It is such a noticeably dynamic difference between the two. [/QUOTE]
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