This was the basis for most electronic musical instruments of the 1980's and early 1990's, and it was also the basis for music generation on most 16-bit (and a few 8-bit) computer, arcade, and video game platforms, most notably the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, the SNK Neo Geo arcade and home systems, the Japanese NEC PC-9801 family of computers (also called PC-98 and thus the name of this base), and the early Creative Labs Sound Blaster soundcards for IBM PCs and compatibles.Īlthough most of its melody is done via FM-synthesis, this base also makes use of (also old-school) programmable sound generation (PSG) (called software-controlled sound generation or SSG by famous soundchip maker Yamaha) for square-wave (8-bit-ish) backing melody and percussion effects, just like the Neo Geo systems and most PC-98 computer games (most notably the original Touhou Project vertical shooter games), so technically it is an FM+PSG (or FM+SSG) Sparta base (rather than a pure FM-synthesized base). The PC-98 Remix base is based on an old-school music-synthesis technique known as Frequency Modulation Synthesis ( FM-Synthesis for short). 2.3 V3: Version 3 (OPNA Mix) - 'the definitive version'.
