First post, by GabrielKnight123
I have bought a Roland SC55 not the mark 2 and it has the GS and General MIDI logos on the front and I need some help to get my soundcard to see it, my soundcard is a Soundblaster Vibra 16S CT2900 and it doesnt see my SC55 in the first game im trying to setup that is "Gabriel Knight 1" from the CD Version. I have a cable connected to the joystick/MIDI port of the SB 16S with a 15 pin adapter and then the output MIDI cable of the adapter I have plugged into my SC55's input port. I think I have a boot disk problem as I have tried a different sound card and it found my SC55 very well and I tried the 2 built in MIDI songs on the SC55 and all is working well. I dont have dos installed im using a boot disk made from windows 98se and I installed the software/drivers for the Vibra16S from Vogons Vintage Driver Library and I copied what was put into the C:\ autoexec.bat and config.sys into my boot disk, I have sound working well in Windows 98se. If I run Gabriel Knight 1 with just the soundcard it plays music and voice well.
My boot disk has
Autoexec.bat:
Set Sound=C:\Vibra16
Set Blaster=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
Set MIDI=Synth:1 MAP:E
C:\Vibra16\Diagnose /S
C:\Vibra16\Mixerset /P /Q
LH C:\mouse\mouse.com
LH A:\MSCDEX.exe /D:mscd001 /L:D
Set Path=C:\mouse;C:\windows\command;C:\windows
Config.sys:
Device=C:\Windows\himem.sys
Device=C:\Windows\EMM386.exe NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=A:\OAKCDROM.sys /D:mscd001
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=C:\Vibra16\DRV\Vibra16.sys /unit=0 /Blaster=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5
Device=C:\Vibra16\DRV\CTMMSYS.sys
In windows 98 I tried changing the default "use automatic settings" of input/output range 0388-038B to 0330-0331 and kept the I5 D1 H5 all settings had no conflicts
I have also tried changing "Set MIDI=Synth:1 MAP:E" to Set MIDI=Synth:2 MAP:E
The joystick port on the SB 16S is on and has input/output range of 0200-0207 in Windows
I have used "mixerset" in dos for the soundcard and made sure Input had Left-in Right-in MIDI selected and that the MIDI volume was high enough
and that "Line" had Left-in and Right-in selected and a high enough volume and I have an RCA to 3.5mm stereo plug connected the the SC55 and then into the line in of my soundcard.
I have seen on youtube videos that people use a "R" letter after a game run command I dont know what this is and my problems might be a soundcard issue as I asked a question a while back about my SB Vibra 16S and he/she said "the Creative card is probably the least desirable due to various chipset bugs on Creative products which cause problems with MIDI. Your card may be affected to a greater or lesser degree, the extent only truly being known by testing."
I also have a Roland SC55 with just GS (not a mark 2) and I have the same problem with this soundcard so I dont think its the SC55's.