AWE64 Creative Labs Sound Card
I have the above card and may upgrade to a SB Live card (not the Value edition) in the hopes of better sounds.
On my present card I play various MIDI files, most sound fair as you know. I have played them under my browser (Netscape) as well as independently outside of the browser.
People talk about a GS setting which I found on the Synth tab of the AWE64 Panel. I tried this setting and found little difference of the standard GM Midi mode.
Am I doing something wrong or using it for the wrong purpose?
Now some people also talk about how a MIDI file is optimized for the Roland XG setting or something like that and requires a load of a soundbank. WOnder if this would even make a difference in playing a MIDI file I find on the Internet.
Thanks for a reply.
pacumming@mindspring.com
On my present card I play various MIDI files, most sound fair as you know. I have played them under my browser (Netscape) as well as independently outside of the browser.
People talk about a GS setting which I found on the Synth tab of the AWE64 Panel. I tried this setting and found little difference of the standard GM Midi mode.
Am I doing something wrong or using it for the wrong purpose?
Now some people also talk about how a MIDI file is optimized for the Roland XG setting or something like that and requires a load of a soundbank. WOnder if this would even make a difference in playing a MIDI file I find on the Internet.
Thanks for a reply.
pacumming@mindspring.com
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The sound of a Midi-File depends on the quality of the bank you loaded in the ram of you soundcard. But don't forget, that Midi is a standard. So it always sounds poor. But all the people over the world can listen to it. It doesn't make a big difference if you hear a midi-file on a 50$ or a 500$ Soundcard.
and it should have a better more crisp MIDI sound but the
difference was not very different, and the special software needed to activate this new midi sound did only work on fast machines, so if your machine is slow the software might not be installed at all.
SB Lives primary new technology is the Environmental sound and 5 speaker outputs so the MIDI output wont be much
different from what you are used to !
The ideal MIDI sound is a HI-FI representation of the instrument sounds. But HI-FI quality takes up a lot of memory, so if the only thing you want is a perfect MIDI sound, it would be better to put 4 og 8Mb ram on your
AWE64 card !