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It turns out that the motherboard I was testing on was not the most compatible with the VIVO. I was using an SE440BX-2, and the simple BIOS settings did not allow you to turn off USB. I suspect there may have been a resource conflict between the MIDI IRQ and the USB IRQ.
The VIVO works better in pure DOS on my 486 board. I copied the SNDSCAPE directory from the Windows computer. I have attached it to this message for others to use. I edited the INITSS.BAT to point to the SNDSCAPE directory (rather than C:\WINDOWS).
The VIVO works great with Descent and even Gods (which uses MT-32 MIDI). Descent recognizes the Soundscape for digital effects also, and the sound is far superior to that of an SB Pro. I did not get any music from Tyrian 2K, however (which worked fine with the Opus).
The VIVO is an interesting card for DOS. It supports GM music with a 1MB patch set of middling quality. It has superior sound quality to SB Pro & SB 16 for games that support it. It requires EMM386, but the TSR is very small. Its MPU-401 port may support intelligent mode (I haven't tested). It's less than $20.