MIDI

[раен гослин]

Хотел поинтересоваться, какой midi проигрыватель вы используете и почему? Я лично юзаю TiMidity++, но также прикольный GUS Emulation

[inkus]

Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 на новом компьютере и Sound Blaster 32 PnP (урезанная версия AWE32) на старом пеньке.

[Jian Hou Zi]

I use CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth, with an AWE32 soundfont.

[inkus]

Oh, yeah, VirtualMIDISynth is good too if do not have an option for the hardware solution. I use it on the laptop. It rather hungry for memory, though.
TiMidity++ is a clean open-source software, which is very good in some sutuations. But sound it produces is too dry and hollow to my tastes.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Jian Hou Zi:

I use CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth, with an AWE32 soundfont.

Ahh, my Soundblaster AWE32 sound card back in the day, memories! I never really understood at the time how to configure the damn thing :)

[Jian Hou Zi]

Originally posted by Peter:

Ahh, my Soundblaster AWE32 sound card back in the day, memories! I never really understood at the time how to configure the damn thing :)

My dad's computer had an AWE32, by coincidental random selection. I thought it sounded awesome, especially compared to older computers, so when I later got my own first computer, not understanding that soundfonts were manufacturer-specific and thinking it was a matter of 16-bit versus 32-bit, I simply asked for "a 32-bit soundcard."

I ended up with an Axtra or something weird like that. It was 32-bit, but MIDI sounded like sh~t. I kept fiddling with settings, thinking Windows '95 was the culprit, but to no avail as its MIDI playback just sounded like garbage. (Apparently the selling point of the crappy Axtra was that it came with a CD-ROM music video for some R&B adolescent girl group I'd never heard of before nor have I since.)

I finally took my computer back to the shop, with Heretic's E1M1 MIDI on the desktop with a wave recording of the same MIDI from my dad's AWE32, and asked the techs to make the MIDI sound like the wave. After they explained that only an AWE32 can sound like an AWE32, I told them to put one in. I think I had to pay something like $100, which probably included a restock fee for the rubbish card.

But, man, loooooooved my AWE32.