I bought XG-Gold in 2003 after a friend who had built his DB50XG into a box with digital output gifted me with his SW60XG, and I have very carefully kept backup copies of the program and registration codes (unlike some idiot on my QS300 group who demanded I violate the licensing conditions and …

"VL voices are not GM-compatible, and are useless for anyone who is not a musician." I disagree. VL-XG voices (Bank MSB 97, Bank LSB 112 to 119) will play as VL70m voices on a Sondius-XG enabled YMF7x4 (and presumably S-YXG100 softsynth) and as Key Scale Panning (Bank MSB 0, Bank LSB 1) voices on …

I have found in testing a PCI card (Labway Xwave 5000) which holds the YMF724 chip that the Sondius-XG feature, which is available with the Windows 95/98/98SE/ME .vxd driver but not with the Windows 2000/XP/etc WDM driver, is compatible with the VL70m synthesiser except that the Distortion block ( …