First post, by TimMer1981
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I've got a Sound Blaster AWE32 (CT-3980) in my dedicated MS-DOS 6.22 machine. To this card I've got a DreamBlaster X2 wavetable card connected. Recently I've acquired a Roland SC-55 and a Roland MT-32 is on its way (using MUNT at the moment), which will be daisy chained to the SC-55.
So here's the thing: I've now got four audio output sources for music:
- The EMU8000 chip on the AWE32 (port 220)
- The DreamBlaster wavetable card installed on the AWE32 (port 330)
- The Roland SC-55 on the UART port (port 330) with SoftMPU
- The Roland MT-32 on the UART port (port 330) with SoftMPU
My current workaround for preventing the DreamBlaster, SC-55 and MT-32 sounding all at the same time is using MIXERSET.EXE to mute the output of the EMU8000 and DreamBlaster when using the SC-55 or MT-32 and muting the SC-55 and MT-32 with a rack mixer to which everything is connected.
Now, today I've found a Sound Blaster Live! (CT4830), which is a PCI card. Would it be useful to use this card as a dedicated MPU-401 output (using SoftMPU) and change the MIDI I/O port of the AWE32 to 300, to create a separate port for the Rolands? Or wouldn't this be advisable?
A HardMPU card would be even nicer, but I've only got two ISA slots on my motherboard, one of which is taken by the AWE32 and the other is taken by a dual gameport card. I do however have loads of PCI slots still available, so there's the why behind this question. 😀
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