Jacques wrote on 2023-09-13, 09:54:

Hi Guys, in your opinion, what's the better choice wavetable sound quality-wise: E-Wave or Dreamblaster S2?

Really depends on your tastes, but I'd say S2 is "safer" it is very well balanced, and sounds good with basically all GM tracks.

E-Wave is bass heavy, so this can be good or bad depending on the game. This also makes it sound more unique with it's own character. Hence I use it a lot more than my S2.

Personally, QWave is my favorite though. 😀

Jacques wrote on 2023-09-13, 09:54:

Hi Guys, in your opinion, what's the better choice wavetable sound quality-wise: E-Wave or Dreamblaster S2?

I much prefer the S2. It was my first wavetable and honestly I always think of it as the Little Wavetable That Could. It's really commendable for what it is.

For your listening pleasure: https://soundcloud.com/user-470084971/sets/dr … blaster-s2-midi

One nice trick that the S2 has, at least the parallel version (I haven’t checked the wave table version), is it can emulate a Roland MT32 quite well via SOFTMPU.exe.

It’s not perfect, but a nice feature for those that don’t own one. Luckily I do and that’s how I can say it’s a decent emulation.

dreamblaster wrote on 2023-01-02, 14:03:

I have some more E-waves ready now (https://www.serdashop.com/EWave).
The current E-wave uses the ESS ES692 chip.
Is there any other ESS wavetable chip that sounds sufficiently different, to consider for E-wave II ?

What is the difference between ES692S and ES692?

brunobox99 wrote on 2023-11-22, 15:24:

dreamblaster wrote on 2023-01-02, 14:03:

I have some more E-waves ready now (https://www.serdashop.com/EWave).
The current E-wave uses the ESS ES692 chip.
Is there any other ESS wavetable chip that sounds sufficiently different, to consider for E-wave II ?

What is the difference between ES692S and ES692?

I think it's the same. The datasheet in the link refers to both as the same. Maybe the "S" designates something about the package its in or something, I'm no expert... 😀

https://dosdays.co.uk/media/ess/ES692_Datasheet.pdf

What the S means, I don't know, but several ES692 designs exist in alternate packages and whatnot.