With respect, as GH, you're a very smart person, I don't think the phrase "canonical recording" really means very much. Personally, I care about two things:
- sound quality
- minimal loss of polyphony
Rev 1 all the way, baby. I don't think the average listener cares about the vibrato differences, they want it to sound good.
(If you do care, of course, you can buy a rev 0 MT-32.)
I was not referring to the vibrato differences of the CM-500 and CM-32LN (endre1952 got that right), I was referring to "exploits software bugs of MT-32 (Old) modules' firmware; will on some occasions sound wrong on later-generation modules." When 6 other Sierra SCI games have been demonstrated to fit in this category, it only makes sense to consider whether other games may also fall within this category. Sierra was known to use rev.0 MT-32s for all its in-house MT-32 sound tracks (which encompasses every SCI game except LSL5.) I stand by my original statement.
