The life and chimes of the Reveal SC600 sound card

The life and chimes of the Reveal SC600 sound card In year 1996 I got my first sound card: a Reveal SoundFX Wave 32, codename SC600. Little did I knew, in that era of rapid hardware progress, that the quality of its MIDI rendering would not be matched by any of my later PCs. However, recently I managed to make a small step towards resurrecting those lost sounds: a small modification to the Ensoniq S-2000 soundfont has produced the first .sf2 file that can genuinely be named after the SC600. The protagonist of this story. Credits: CC-BY-4.0, by Vogons user “Meatball” (source) The soundfont is not a masterpiece: the technique used to make it is barely more than a spray of vibe coding over the work of competent people, and I cannot even share the resulting file because I could not (yet?) convince the rightholder to give their permission. However, the project was a good occasion to piece together what it's currently known about this obscure Reveal soundcard. Before we go into the details,…