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First post, by cj_reha

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I have an AWE64 CT4520 card here I am using for my Windows 98 box. It's recognized in 98 SE, plug and play drivers are installed and it works fine for Wavetable MIDI.

Unfortunately after a restart it defaults to Sound Blaster 16 mode (16-bit audio mode) for MIDIs. I have found removing the drivers and having 98 reinstall them works for a single boot.

I also found disabling the 16-bit audio driver works, and it goes back to Wavetable MIDI, but it no longer has volume control and cannot play WAVs.

Is there a way I can make it default to Wavetable MIDI for MIDI files, and 16-bit audio for WAVs?

Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 2, by Jorpho

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cj_reha wrote:

Unfortunately after a restart it defaults to Sound Blaster 16 mode (16-bit audio mode) for MIDIs.

Can you be more specific about exactly what you are seeing?

If you are loading a soundfont and then restarting, then you will have to reload the soundfont again.

Perhaps your BLASTER environment variable is being set incorrectly?

Reply 2 of 2, by swaaye

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Yeah I'm not sure I understand what he's describing either. AWE64 basically works as a SB16 + EMU Synth. Is the synth disappearing after reboot, causing Windows to use the SB16 portion's FM synthesis instead? How about some screenshots of device manager before and after?

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