Did you apply all updates ? the latest is ver 1.11.

http://dukertcm.com/knowledge-base/downloads- … m/blood-patchs/

I tried it with OUWB as well, but issues were still there with the drivers. Though I haven't tried it without the drivers.

EDIT: The version is 1.11 right now

I had nearly the same problem (MIDI plays fine in setup, but barely if at all plays during the game), and I can't remember 100% how I resolved this, but the following steps were involved:

- Using either the GOG install or a fresh install from the CD, can't remember which
- Applying the MIDI patch from:
Re: Apogee / 3D Realms - sound driver hacking

newtmonkey wrote on 2021-01-18, 01:30:

I had nearly the same problem (MIDI plays fine in setup, but barely if at all plays during the game), and I can't remember 100% […]
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I had nearly the same problem (MIDI plays fine in setup, but barely if at all plays during the game), and I can't remember 100% how I resolved this, but the following steps were involved:

- Using either the GOG install or a fresh install from the CD, can't remember which
- Applying the MIDI patch from:
Re: Apogee / 3D Realms - sound driver hacking

This looks promising! I am wondering if it is because of the midi hardware I am using then, along with the scsi driver, which wouldn't pain me to disable when playing blood, unless I use the cd audio track, which wouldn't require midi. I'll try this soon and report back on how it works!

It will be interesting to see if that helps. I am wondering if it's a problem with One Unit Whole Blood (which is what the GOG version is based on), as from what I recall the installer only works in Windows so most people probably ran it in DOS mode within Win95 or whatever... there may be some issue with MIDI playback where it works fine in Windows for some reason but not DOS. Another possibility is that MIDI playback was always problematic for this version, but most people didn't realize it because (a) MIDI playback works fine in setup and (b) most people seemed to have used the redbook audio soundtrack.

Ok, so nothing seemed to change, but here is a list of the working songs that I could find on the SC-55 mk2:

Verified Working:
CBLOOD2 (Shipwrecked)
CBLOOD4 (Dark Carnival)
CBLOOD5 (The Great Temple)
CBLOOD6 (Lair of Shial)
CBLOOD10 (Wrong Side of the Tracks)

Edit: It appears that not every song is working on the SB16 either such as E1M3, E3M2, E4M5, E4M6, and E4M7, though there may have been others (Do these maps even have music)?

Now that I think of it, does setting the sound setup to Sound Canvas have any significant differences from General MIDI? As far as I'm aware, it has support for GS and more voices.

the answer is that blood's MIDIs are poorly written and require the original SC-55 to work right, not the mkII and derivatives. somehow this fact seems oddly overlooked even after all these years, not to mention the AWE32 option playing FM ...

there's been an effort to patch the game here, i never bothered with it as i do have an SC-55 but give it a try and report back if it helps.

auron wrote on 2021-01-18, 05:19:

the answer is that blood's MIDIs are poorly written and require the original SC-55 to work right, not the mkII and derivatives. somehow this fact seems oddly overlooked even after all these years, not to mention the AWE32 option playing FM ...

there's been an effort to patch the game here, i never bothered with it as i do have an SC-55 but give it a try and report back if it helps.

Ahhh that would explain it! Its really a shame how awesome blood is but that it suffers from lots of bugs (save game damage scaling, crashes, midi driver issues, etc.). Hopefully I won't have this issue with Duke Nukem 3D.

I do have Blood running fine on my Pentium 133 playing music with a SC-55mkii, so I know it is (somehow) possible to get it working. I just wish I remembered the exact steps I took. I am 99% certain it involved applying the patch mentioned above.

TelamonLivesOn wrote on 2021-01-18, 04:21:

Edit: It appears that not every song is working on the SB16 either such as E1M3, E3M2, E4M5, E4M6, and E4M7, though there may have been others (Do these maps even have music)?

Some maps indeed don't play MIDI music but instead just play ambient sound effects, though I don't remember off the top of my head which levels they are, exactly.

TelamonLivesOn wrote on 2021-01-18, 23:18:

Hopefully I won't have this issue with Duke Nukem 3D.

no, but that game does suffer badly on creative cards when >8-bit 8khz mixing is used together with MIDI.