First post, by Braca862
Hello,
I am thinking about getting a MIDI keyboard (the ones that require external software or hardware to play) to try out the Spectrasonics Distorted Reality sound library CD-ROM. For those of you who don't know, Distorted Reality was released in 1995 and was known for containing a lot of sound samples used in video games during the 1990's and 2000's, including Zelda, Spyro, and Silent Hill. For example, one sample is called Iceland and was famously used in Majora's Mask when there was six hours left before the moon fell.
My question is which MIDI's do you recommend that works well on Windows 98? I don't know if the ones sold at Guitar Center is supported. It is very unlikely that the software that comes with them will work, since they require at least Windows 7, but would it be possible for Windows 98 to recognize these modern MIDI's as general MIDI? Lastly, for those who do have a MIDI, what is the setup like? Do they have to be connected to a sound card or via MIDI out to usb?