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Where should I start... Looking for the right SFont/Card Model

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First post, by xilefeniotan

Posted on 2014-11-12, 09:19

xilefeniotan Offline

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Hi everyone,

After years of trying to figure out how to listen to my old midi files the way they were back in the 90's, I finally mastered the Soundfonts.
I'm still trying to find THE sound card that was in my computer back then, it is fairly close to a OPL3, but I did had SoundBlaster 16 drivers
and a couple CREATIVE LABS images and logos everywhere. I think it might be a copy of these cards. If I still had that PC, I'd find out fast.
I also remember that in the last years of life of my PC, I saw that it might be a trident sound card. Does that make any sense?

Here's a sample of a track I recorded back then, unfortunately, it was probably recorded via a microphone close to my speaker and the
Hz ratio was fairly low.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23411791/ … 20recording.wav

Anybody can help me figuring out which card it was?

Thanks a lot!

Félix

Reply 1 of 1, by bristlehog

Posted on 2014-11-12, 17:31

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Your recording is quite generic sounding, it has been produced by OPL2 or OPL3 compliant synthesizer that was present on almost every sound card back in '90s.

As far as I know, there were no Trident manufactured sound cards.

If you are going to listen to your old midi files on a new PC, you will need some OPL2/OPL3 emulator, like one embedded in DOSBOX.

Hardware comparisons and game system requirements: https://technical.city

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