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== OPL3 unfair undeserved reputation ==
The OPL3 soundchip has been underused and unfairly denigrated. criticized, largely due to 2 reasons explain this situationfactors:
* As OPL3 is compatible with OPL2, PC game producers did not make the effort to specifically exploit the OPL3 soundchip capabilities, instead they relied on inferior OPL2 tunes. These are the equivalent of the Speccy ports that gave the Amstrad CPC a bad reputation.
* Western PC game developers in the early 90's also tended to produce music by using a master MIDI track on Roland MT-32, and then downgrading it for the various PC soundchips. The result was a cheesy so-called "MIDI" music. That was unfair for OPL3, but also for MIDI as Wavetable MIDI sounds way better than that.