First post, by Robertkopp
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I scraped the internet for all the 'free' synth solutions after I bought the Roland Cloud VSC to get as much midi sound module capabilities onto one dedicated machine.
For Windows XP you need to use MapleVMC, from Windows 7 on you need to use loopmidi to create a virtual midi cable,
to trigger midi internally to play back midis on the machine itself.
I use nanohost to open the VST, since Midiplayer does lock up when I send XG through the midi cable to play the Yamaha VSTs and it also does not like to save stuff in the VST.
So I just use Midi Player as a better Midi Player. The Edirol VST needs to be installed, since it needs stuff in the registry.
There are 2 driver packs that are failing to properly work, even tho they where from the Win98/XP transitional period. You should think about installing the Yamaha one however,
since it has a nice Midi Player tailored to XG. So you can control the otherwise hidden effect sliders on the Yamaha VSTs without Sysex commands.
I use the HP t610 plus with Windows XP to host all of this MIDI goodness. I tried to do it with Wine on a Raspberry pi first, but that thing did not like Bassmidi or the Midi Player at all.
The t610 should get a Soundblaster Z or simmilar for best results. All but the Yamaha S-YXG50 plugin are way to quiet. I have to crank the gain up on my mixer way to high.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZtwOfXYgkQo … iew?usp=sharing
More stuff or Win9x or experimental use.
https://erpman1.tripod.com/download.html - I found the link here in the forum, many things are just available through the archive link
https://archive.org/details/yamahasyxg
https://fsck.technology/software/Yamaha/S-YXG … aha%20S-YXG-DM/
https://soundprogramming.net/software/yamaha- … re-synthesizer/ - some info about these yamaha soft syths
I will get another thin client for Win98, but I will still search for on stop solution. Maybe a full x86 based linux installation on the hp t610 instead of the raspberry pi or a driver wrapper would solve the issue. Having a opl3 card in the system would put the cherry on top of the pie.