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First post, by engk

Posted on 2006-03-09, 10:24

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I've read around here that MUNT would work with dosbox. I followed the instructions to install the driver and had set my windows MIDI device to "MT-32 Synth" and dosbox config midi to "mt32", but for some reason dosbox does not seem to use this and it makes no difference what the windows midi device is set to. The sound is totally different from the CVS with built-in MT-32 emulation. Is there something I'm missing out? Thanks for the help.

Reply 1 of 5, by rcblanke

Posted on 2006-03-09, 17:00

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Hi engk,

If you're not using the CVS version with built-in MT-32 support, you should have 'device' set to 'default'. Then, you may have to set 'config' to the logical windows device number for selecting the Munt driver (I use config=1).

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Reply 2 of 5, by engk

Posted on 2006-03-09, 18:16

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Thanks rcblanke, it worked!

It sounds right now, although somehow the sound is still inferior to the CVS with the built-in emulator (more robust and accurate).

The CVS comes with additional files like preset1.syx, drumpat.rom, patchlog.cfg. Do you think these files responsible for the difference?

Reply 3 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2006-03-09, 19:44

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The Dosbox CVS with builtin Munt is probably using newest Munt CVS. The driver is older.

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Reply 4 of 5, by engk

Posted on 2006-03-10, 07:06

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I guess there is some confusion here. I thought that there was only one CVS build with mt-32 emulation, but it seems that there are others claiming to have emulation too.

The build that I am actually refering to in my previous posts is CanadaCow's build, which is rather old by CVS standards. The newer ones by ykhwong and gulikoza sounds pretty awful (by setting midi device to "mt32"). CanadaCow's build while unlistenably choppy (probably due to lack of timesync) is clearly miles ahead of the game. Installing MUNT into windows sounds much closer to CanadaCow's version.

I find this degeneration in sound quality surprising as these things usually get better with time.

Reply 5 of 5, by avatar_58

Posted on 2006-03-10, 07:18

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engk wrote:
I guess there is some confusion here. I thought that there was only one CVS build with mt-32 emulation, but it seems that there are others claiming to have emulation too.

The build that I am actually refering to in my previous posts is CanadaCow's build, which is rather old by CVS standards. The newer ones by ykhwong and gulikoza sounds pretty awful (by setting midi device to "mt32"). CanadaCow's build while unlistenably choppy (probably due to lack of timesync) is clearly miles ahead of the game. Installing MUNT into windows sounds much closer to CanadaCow's version.

I find this degeneration in sound quality surprising as these things usually get better with time.

Between the driver and the cvs-builtin mt-32 emulation I thought both were way off from testing my sierra games. They were missing instruments and just sounded way off.

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