First post, by amars464
Hey all, I've been looking around here for a while, but I keep hitting a wall on the best way to set up my sound for this machine I'm building. First of all my specs are:
Pentium III 1Ghz CPU
1.0 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 7000 GPU
SB Live SB0100
EPOX CU-133A Motherboard
Windows 98 Second Edition
I've tried a bunch of different driver installs, and I keep running into the same issues when it comes to using the MIDI out to hook up a Roland SC-55. I was wondering if anyone had any advice. Generally speaking if I install a working copy of the VxD Drivers I'll be able listen to MIDI files in Windows Media Player through the Sound Canvas, and SB16 Emulation works fine with games like Duke Nukem II, but if I try to play games that can take advantage of the SC-55 like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D it ends up using the SB Live's MIDI Synth instead. I told it to use the SB Live MIDI Out in the Multimedia settings properly. If I install the WDM drivers then games like Doom and Duke 3D will play MIDI through the SC-55, but the digital sound lags a ton (sometimes it even breaks entirely during a game) and I lose SB16 Emulation entirely.
I'm doing this entirely through Windows btw. I wanted to get this working right before I started messing around with DOS stuff. Anyone have any ideas on what the best way to set myself up would be? Or am I just stuck between a rock and a hard place with my drivers?