When you say "sb drivers" - is this something that would have been included on the diskettes provided by Creative labs with the sound blaster cards.

I sill have a box with manuals from an old early DOS SB - but I've not seen the diskettes for some time... I did make CD/DVD backups of
most of the floppy disks I got with products around that time , so there's a good chance I still have them "somewhere" - It would take me
some time to dig through the boxes of stuff from that era that I still have...

Also, I noted a while back that in the "Milliways" forum there is a thread called something like "New Creative Sound Blaster Drivers"
where he seems to have posted all the diskette images from SB 1.5+ - I see there are some other threads like that in
various forums ... I'm assuming you have already searched "Everywhere here"?

Dave ::: https://dunfield.themindfactory.com ::: "Daves Old Computers"->Personal

yeah. i haven't been able to figure out how to actually get the banks out of the drivers, though. i'm not sure if the dos or the win 3.0 old drivers would be easier to extract.
vgmpf.com has a recording of ballad2.mid, and it does sound right, but i dunno if the dos or windows drivers were used to do it.

the drivers were included with the sb 2.0 driver disks with my first sound blaster. it also has dr sbaitso and the talking parrot 😀

Any of the correct driver disks will have a copy of ballad2.mid, jazz3,mid, and reggae2.mid, as well as minuet1.mid, which sounds the same as minuet.mid as near as i can

okay. i remaber more now. there was a midi to cmf converter that i was able to use to convert those four midi files, and they then played correctly under dos with playcms. but i'll be darn if i can remember the converter.

i'm not sure if the default intstruments are in playcmf or in sbfmdrv.com. but i'm guessing they are in playcmf

FOUND THE BANKS!

http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/nightowl- … 42A/MID2CMF.ZIP

drum.ibk and melody.ibk

the version of mid2cmf.exe in there properly converts the midi files to cmf, and puts the right instruments in.

and the sequencer was "sequencer plus JR". whihc i'm not finding online anywhere.

sigh... i can't seem to convert the drum.ibk file. and i'm not sure what's going wrong.

okay found an alternate drum bank and i'm good to go.

useful for playing back older MusiClips files arranged for mt-32 from Voyetra, and possibly others.