First post, by G40
I've been pulling my hair out (what's left of it) trying to get FM sound via MIDI working on my XP P4 machine. Couldn't get my trusty ESS solo 1 working last night (Re: Help installing ESS Solo 1 in XP), but by a stroke of luck, an eBay purchase YMF-724 equipped card arrived in the post this morning.
I stuck it in, booted up, and it worked right away! FM synth showed up as a MIDI device and worked in my favourite MIDI sequencer. Amazing!
Then I thought I'd be clever and install the "proper" driver. This worked, in as much as it replaced the FM synth with with the XG wavetable synth as the MIDI device. 🙁 In an ideal world I'd like to be able to access both, but here and now I need access to FM voices via MIDI.
Tried installing PowerYMF, which seemed happy, but still no sign of FM.
Uninstalled both, rebooted, XP wanted to connect to the internet to install drivers (machine is offline), failed to install. Pulled card. Rebooted. Turned off, reinstalled and booted up, same again. Put the Windows CD in but it couldn't find drivers. Tried selecting it manually from a list but couldn't find it.
I'm kicking myself because it sounded great (in a weedy lo-fi way) for about 5 minutes.
Any idea how I can either roll back to the standard XP driver which worked fine for FM or even better find a driver which allows access to both MIDI synths?
