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AWE32 and Windows 3.1: How to use a daughterboard for General MIDI?

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First post, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-08-06, 11:51

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The answer may be very simple but it is eluding me. I can't seem to find a way to use the MIDI mapper to use an installed wavetable daughterboard instead of the EMU800 chip for general MIDI, and I can't seem to do that. Is this possible? The midi configuration in Windows 9x makes this a lot easier, but in Win3.1 it's really not very straightforward..

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Reply 1 of 5, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2018-08-06, 20:29

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Do you have separate devices for the MPU-401 interface and MPU emulation for the EMU8k?

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Reply 2 of 5, by Jo22

Posted on 2018-08-06, 20:47

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That's the first time I hear Win9x had a good MIDI mapper.
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Reply 3 of 5, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-08-06, 21:02

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gdjacobs wrote:
Do you have separate devices for the MPU-401 interface and MPU emulation for the EMU8k?

After a lot of messing about I did a reinstall of the driver CD which populated the MIDI Mapper with SB16 Synth, SB16 MIDI and AWE32 Synth (with All/Basic/Extended options for each). Messing about with these, I found out that SB16 Synth is OPL3, SB16 MIDI is MPU401 and AWE32 Synth is EMU800. No idea what Basic, Extended or All is. But at least I can play MIDI on all devices now. Cheers.

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Reply 4 of 5, by Falcosoft

Posted on 2018-08-06, 21:16

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appiah4 wrote:

No idea what Basic, Extended or All is.

Sooner or later you will have to get an idea about them 😀
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Reply 5 of 5, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-08-06, 21:21

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Falcosoft wrote:
appiah4 wrote:

No idea what Basic, Extended or All is.

Sooner or later you will have to get an idea about them 😀
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Very informative, thank you! I will stick to All for the time being 😀

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