What do you expect from the board?
Of course you have to send a GM reset to switch it to GM mode. There seems to be nothing wrong here.

Checked the other one and it's the same. Why does it need a GM reset? Other cards work fine, Roland external modules too...

It is just that the DB50XG resets in XG mode on boot up and other wavetable in GM or GS.
It is a XG compatible modul afterall.

But i only have this issue in Windows. DOS works just fine... If that was true DOS should fail too.

I'm here to confess something: I learned about the very existence of wavetable daughterboards here, in Vogons. I even had one installed on an old SB16 I purchased off eBay without truly knowing it.

Hopefully I'll get this answered in this post without being scolded, even if it isn't the place to ask, but: what do *exactly* daughterboards do? If I plug, for example, my clone DB50XG in my Diamond Monster Sound MX300... what difference will it make, gaming related? Do I have to configure anything on drivers? Is it useful to install one in a DOS ISA soundcard for old games?

Scylla wrote:

what do *exactly* daughterboards do?

You get music like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBm_qK5jvPI

Rather than the standard FM music.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

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Scylla wrote:

what do *exactly* daughterboards do?

You get music like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBm_qK5jvPI

Rather than the standard FM music.

Even in Windows, with no additional drivers? I'm having a fit trying to troubleshoot the PC that has the MX300 installed, but I'd love to hear that kind of music on my old games.

I've been wanting to buy a Sound Canvas off eBay, or an MT-32, for some time but I've never reconciled myself to the idea of parting with more than 100€ for a twenty year old synth 🙁

You don't really need to pay 100 euro for a sound canvas synth imo when you have the NEC XR385 (clone card to DB50XG).

In many games the Yamaha DB50XG will sound better. Doom, Descent, Duke Nukem 3D are three examples. Listen yourself on http://www.wavetable.nl/

vetz wrote:

You don't really need to pay 100 euro for a sound canvas synth imo when you have the NEC XR385 (clone card to DB50XG).

In many games the Yamaha DB50XG will sound better. Doom, Descent, Duke Nukem 3D are three examples. Listen yourself on http://www.wavetable.nl/

Sweet! And all that without drivers of any kind, thanks to your help here and this excellent thread I know what to do now!