N64 RSP Audio Emulation

[Degamisu]

Even though the N64 doesn't have a dedicated Soundchip, It would be cool to have the N64's sound inside of Furnace. The only trackers I can find are these old dev CDs I have for windows 95 and SGI using partner64. But a lot of people don't have that equipment and it can get quite expensive. There are some soundfonts out there for MIDI, but that would cost:

• No ROM builder for testing
• Inaccurate samples
• Difficult song creation (you would need to know what sound is what.)

But having this built in to furnace would make the sample inputs and creation a lot easier!

[Soulchip]

Hmmm interesting...could this mean that Furnace needs a Reality Signal Processor emulator? Could this actually work? @tildearrow

[Degamisu]

Possibly. How would you emulate that? Isn't it just a bunch of signals from the CPU that tells the N64 what to draw and the audio as well? Or am I confusing that with the RDP?

[Degamisu]

this would be extremely useful since I lost the cable. (and the software is extremely complex for me) but having it in furnace would make it 1,000,000% easier.

[IceDragonDee]

+1 to this honestly, but maybe you could make the name of this discussion a bit better so that people know what you're talking about without needing to click on it?

[Degamisu]

👍

[ghost]

It would be useful if you're remixing a song that is over 50 channels.

[lunathir]

Requires dynamic channel count. N64's RSP does not have any sort of dedicated channel count (in the way of how many sounds can play) either, from what I remember.

[Degamisu]

You're right. That's the issue we are facing on how this could be emulated.

[Degamisu]

however, we could probably emulate the CPU.

[Degamisu]

bump?

[Degamisu]

closing with inactivity