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* first release was VSC-55, i.e. Virtual version of SC-55
* then there was VSC-88 2.1a, i.e. the second release was Virtual version of SC-88: I guess it was supporting SC-55 mode as well
* then the 3rd release that started this thread "Virtual Sound Canvas 3" - supports virtual SC-55, SC-88 and SC-88Pro
* 3rd release has several versions: 3.0/3.2/3.21, 3.22, 3.23
* there is update (still online on the official Roland website) from any 3.x version to the latest 3.23 - it makes sense that's the last version, because the only fixes it introduces are support for Hyper-threading and Multi-core CPUs, i.e. modern CPU architecture
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* Next was the best release (and what luckily I had on my hard disk): VSC-MP1 Virtual Sound Canvas Multi Pack - that just packs in a single installation "Virtual Sound Canvas 3.23" and the newly introduced v1.00 of the VST variant of the soft synthesizer. It's the best, because you're getting the latest VSC 3.23 and the first version of the VST, which is the last with external "Roland VSC Synthesizer Engine" and sound bank files - good for initial reverse-engineering. Having that version also allows you to update the VST to any of the newer versions (1.01 or 1.60).
Not likely since neither the real Sound Canvas series nor the virtual versions (SC-VA inlcuded) support real LA synthesis that defines MT-32 and CM-32/64 like synths (and thus MUNT). SC devices are only romplers that contain a CM-32/64 compatible sound bank at Bank MSB 127 and a CM-32/64 compatible drum set at channel 10/Program 127 ( most likely this is what you have found). But they only work somewhat with titles that only use the default instruments. Games/Midi files that try to reprogram/modify the sounds the same way as can be done on a real MT-32 compatible synth fail on the whole Sound Canvas series ( but work with MUNT).
MUNT emulates Roland MT-32 and similar synths incomparably much better than any Roland SC devices ever did.
The Windows MIDI patches were licensed by MS from Roland and, in theory, sound fairly close to the virtual Sound Canvas, they are, after all, a version of it.
You can listen to the DOOM files played with a real SC here:
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and compare yourself.
When it comes to system stability on WinXP, I would have to say that the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas v3.23 will lead to the occasional BSOD when running under WinXP due to some deficiency in the device driver coding. It might be stable under Win9x, however. The Roland Virtual Sound Canvas v3.23 sound is somewhat close to the real Roland synth hardware, better that the Microsoft GM/GS soft-synth which licensed Roland Sound Set digital samples.
I found and installed VSC 3.23 and it seems to work. The sound is great (I tested with X-Wing and Settlers II and it was better than the Utopia Soundfont I loaded to my Audigy. I also tested in Descent and it sounds better than the GUS, I always thought Descent was sounding best on the GUS). The only problem I experienced is that the sound sometime hangs when I exit the game, until I play any other MIDI file.
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