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Possible to make virtual MPU-401 for Windows MIDI devices?

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First post, by bobsmith

Posted on 2023-08-22, 17:10

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I have a ThinkPad T42 with Windows 98SE and a SoundMAX integrated audio chip. I want to play through Duke 3D again which works fine on the machine except one issue with the sound card. It actually has SB emulation with working audio but it forces all MPU-401 calls to it's own crappy EuCom synth. I was wondering if I could use some sort of a virtual MPU-401 to send these calls to my Yamaha S-YXG100 softsynth. If that's not possible, maybe I could use a DOS VST driver if that exists and do the same thing with a VST version of the S-YXG?

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Reply 1 of 3, by dominusprog

Posted on 2023-08-22, 17:26

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Check this

Yamaha S-YXG50 Portable VSTi (a software MIDI synth)

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Reply 2 of 3, by Jo22

Posted on 2023-08-22, 18:24

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In theory, there's an early Windows 98 port of VMDSound (now considered deprecated).

Before DOSBox was common, many users had been running VDMSound+Windows XP.

At its core, VDMSound tried to enhance the DOS VM by providing an emulated SB16 w/ gameport.
It also added other features and worked surprisingly well. 🙂👍

There also was an MPU-401 emulation, if memory serves.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2023-08-24, 22:07

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dominusprog wrote on 2023-08-22, 17:26:
Check this

Yamaha S-YXG50 Portable VSTi (a software MIDI synth)

Without MPU-401 emulation support (which isn't mentioned on that thread), it is useless for running DOS games directly within Windows 9x.

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