OR-0043
Yumeo
Japan · 1985 – c. 2005
Ser. V-2891043
1992 · instrument
Issued as VST3 · AU
Restored 2026 from 1992 hardware.
Yumeo GC-16 — Game Console
Yumeo GC-16 · 16-bit console audio · restored from unit no. V-2891043 · Yumeo, Japan, 1992
The restorer's note
The sound chip of a 16-bit console — FM and samples, run through a built-in echo, at the specific bit-depth that scored a generation's afternoons. The constraints are the character; we restored them faithfully rather than lift them.
Acquisition
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The plate
Listening
Listening
Demonstration recordings, prepared at the bench.
The console, plainly
A lead over a bass line with Chip set to Both — the FM voice and its sampled double sharing one tune — at the console's default converter, the last chord ringing out through the echo.
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FM, Sample, Both
The same phrase three ways: the raw FM voice, FM Depth and Ratio pushed as it plays; then its sampled double, Interpolation stepping Gaussian to None to Linear; then Both, the two chips layered on one tune.
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The cave
Echo at 80 % with Echo Time at 240 ms — every note answered twice. Bits steps 16, 12, 9 — the 9-bit ladder grinding — while Rate falls to 16 kHz.
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