I think I'm somewhere in the middle. While I agree that FM synthesis is not good at all at modeling real instruments, I've also heard plenty of kick-ass synth music that uses FM chips (mostly in Japanese console games, as I've said before). I've always lusted after Roland and wavetable MIDI for PC games though, partly because the majority of games (although admittedly not all - the Apogee shareware games are a notable exception) were made to take special advantage and sound better with it, and partly because I never had such resources in the days of DOS (the grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side syndrome I guess).

I know what you mean about FM synthesis sounding warmer too, but I think that just means that there wasn't a lot of high-frequency sound in the timbre of the instruments used.

Of course, I suffered also from the grass-is-greener...-syndrome. I got my first adlib-clone (the cheapest of the cheap) in 1992, while I had been playing computer games from 1988 on. I listened to the Monkey-Island-tunes on my PC speaker and was astonished when I found out one day that there is music in the Scumm Bar. Later, somehow, music developed to one of the most important things about computer games for me as I have always sought very atmospheric games. After I got a soundblaster and most of the games used CD-Audio (which sadly led to a slow death for midi game music) I thought I would finally have the state-of-the-art sound. You can imagine that I was horrified when I realized that the Wing Commander 3 demo only supported General Midi. In fact, only with the advent of software synthesis I became aware of the great sound experience I missed in the Roland Mt-32 times. Just let's hope canadcow continues to work on his emulator until its perfect.

How well does ensoniq soundscape sound when useing midi?

Why isnt anyone answering??😕 😕 😕 😠 😠 😠

Because I've never used an Ensoniq Soundscape. I imagine it sounds a lot like Creative's PCI cards when used in DOS, as they build on Ensoniq technology and use Ensoniq drivers for DOS support.