GUS midi is not the same thing with General Midi 😜. The Gravis Ultrasound had it`s own midi module. Too bad that not many people know this.

GUS midi is not the same thing with General Midi

Where's the difference? Both receive the same midi commands, not?
The only difference is the samples, but those are not emulated by
dosbox for either of the two anyways.

If I will set the midi to General midi it will play by the host`s "samples" anyway. It might be true that they receive the same commands.

If I will set the midi to General midi it will play by the host`s "samples" anyway

That's how it works. For gus midi same as for general midi.

But try to understand: I don`t have a GUS soundcard in my PC, so it will use Windows`s default midi interface, and which is not really that good. So if I set the program to use General Midi it will use Windows's default midi interface.

The Windows GM interface is good if you have a good MIDI soundcard. I have an Audigy II in this system and I run a nice SoundFont bank, so MIDI is great. I actually converted the old 8MB WaveSet from my Soundscape soundcard to a SOundFont bank, so games in DOSBox sound identical to the way they did back on my P2!

However, if you're running a built-in AC97 or something, I feel your pain. I don't have experience with a real GUS, but it sounds to me as though they were doing what Ensoniq made huge: Using waves in a compressed file to play in place of synthesized notes for better MIDI quality.

Yes, I have a VIA AC'97 built-in soundcard and I am happy that somebody understands me. I also have a CMI 5.1 soundcard but I detatched it because I don`t use only one channel(because I like to use headphones). Still that soundcard is not different from this integrated one just that it has 6 channels and has a better sound, but still the midi interface is dreadful. I don`t know how to set up Timidity nor if there is a soundfont that is able to reproduce GUS`s midi instruments. And my problem is not yet solved 🙁 . If you would like to experiment how the GUS midi interface sounds, I could help you over MSN Messenger or through PM.

and I am happy that somebody understands me.

Though i said the same already, but who cares. Guess you didn't want to understand for some reason.

TiMidity++ windows synthesizer(TWSYNTH)

As for GUS in DOSBox I don't see how it would be possible to hear GUS Midi from games in DOSBox without installing GUS patches first?

I said earlier in the topic that I have the ULTRASND directory and the path to it is set correctly. 😜

Sorry for double posting, but isn`t there anybody who knows what could I do? If then can somebody from here tell me how to use Timidity++ with those GUS patches? (as I saw somewhere that Timidity++ supports GUS`s patches)

Sorry, I grew up using the SB series cards, and Ensoniq when they were smoking Creative. Then Creative bought them, 🤣! I can only think of one thing. Try setting the SB type to "none". If not, it may be a problem due to emulating two soundcards. Some games worked with two, others did not.

That does not fix the problem either, unfortunately 😢 . I know that I used the General Midi and SB before with this game, and it worked; and on second hand the sounds seem to work, just the midi is the problem. Still looking for an answer for either Timidity++ or this game.