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<blockquote data-quote="MBeeching" data-source="post: 288088" data-attributes="member: 7491"><p>The attract music is a fairly close match to the version on <a href="http://www.cgmusic.net/archives.html" target="_blank">CGMusic</a> though I don't think the quality is as satisfying. Comparing the two Zen's sounds a bit muffled and lacks bite, though to be fair CG's version does make reference to DSP enhancements. For those interested the attract is encoded as Ogg Vorbis / 44.1kHz / VBR 73 Kbps.</p><p></p><p>The actual table music is handled differently and uses a sound ROM container, approx 1.5mb in this case. That struck me as rather small though it's not dissimilar to Zen's other WMS tables which sound reasonable. The originals aren't particularly large either but the music was clearly designed for playback on specific hardware, it would be great to hear how Zen approached this task but find it doubtful they'd be willing to disclose the full gory details.</p><p></p><p>White Water's cymbals do sound particularly slushy but I can't decide whether it's a heavily compressed sample sourced from the original hardware or completely different instrumentation. I'd have no objections to an increased audio budget if it reduces compression and improves sample quality so it more closely emulates the originals, even doubling it would only slightly increase the installation footprint.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MBeeching, post: 288088, member: 7491"] The attract music is a fairly close match to the version on [URL="http://www.cgmusic.net/archives.html"]CGMusic[/URL] though I don't think the quality is as satisfying. Comparing the two Zen's sounds a bit muffled and lacks bite, though to be fair CG's version does make reference to DSP enhancements. For those interested the attract is encoded as Ogg Vorbis / 44.1kHz / VBR 73 Kbps. The actual table music is handled differently and uses a sound ROM container, approx 1.5mb in this case. That struck me as rather small though it's not dissimilar to Zen's other WMS tables which sound reasonable. The originals aren't particularly large either but the music was clearly designed for playback on specific hardware, it would be great to hear how Zen approached this task but find it doubtful they'd be willing to disclose the full gory details. White Water's cymbals do sound particularly slushy but I can't decide whether it's a heavily compressed sample sourced from the original hardware or completely different instrumentation. I'd have no objections to an increased audio budget if it reduces compression and improves sample quality so it more closely emulates the originals, even doubling it would only slightly increase the installation footprint. [/QUOTE]
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