Stereoprism wrote:Batch file method didn't work. I'll continue to play with the BASSMIDI settings, but it's definitely a disappointment if I can't get this to work right. Part of the fun is playing DOS games with fantastic-sounding music!
Man, that sucks 🙁 Like I had copied and pasted, that method worked great for me, even on my lowly Intel 1.6GHZ laptop with a measly 1GB of system RAM.
Stereoprism wrote:Well... VirtualMIDISynth worked! No crackles at all. Thanks a lot for the help. The only disadvantage I'll have is only one bank at my disposal (two banks are great for my purposes - using one strictly for games, and the other for composing.) Oh well, I'm happy with the result as is! Thanks again!
Glad you found an alternative 😀 Yeah, it's really handy to have two MIDI ports... just like an SBLive 😀
Firtasik wrote:That's weird indeed. It could be hardware related, but the BASSMIDI Driver on Windows 7 worked for me just great (BTW, I have a cheap Asus Xonar DS).
Yeah, I suppose that it must be hardware related. BTW, my buddy has a relatively new HP... one of those weird a$$ed ones that have the monitor and the computer itself mounted in the same upright case. I call it an "over-glorified laptop" 🤣! 😀
Firtasik wrote:Anyway, I did a small audio comparison:
BMD versus VMS
Thanks for the comparison 😀 It sounds like that they both sound fairly close (playback-quality wise).
Firtasik wrote:Yes, the VMS slows down loading time. So, there's no perfect solution yet.
HunterZ wrote:VMS has an option to disable preloading of the entire soundfont at once, but it's probably better to suffer that one delay at the start than to have slight stuttering whenever a new instrument is loaded.
Firtasik wrote:Yes, I know. Sadly, it's still slow.
Yeah... even though that usually (would) fix the crackling problem, I understand that it could be quite slow, due to the entire soundfont being preloaded at the start of MIDI playback. Even more so with some of the GIGANTIC soundfonts that have been released/available in recent years.