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First post, by Rackatack

Posted on 2016-11-27, 20:57

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Hello,

I posted it in a wrong part of the forum, so here am I.
I have a soundblaster awe32 (CT3980) and I'm having issues with midi. The volume of the midi is way to low when I select general midi, it seems muted.
When selecting AWE32 everything works fine.
I have no conflicts with IRQ, DMA, ...
The settings are fine with the mixer
I tried with or without midi daughterboard (Dreamblaster X2 prototype that sounds amazing by the way)
When I try to play any monkey island games, the sound is distorted I tried starting the game and forcing the soundblaster.
But, when I launch the same games in Win98, everything works fine general midi and awe32

Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 5, by Frasco

Posted on 2016-11-28, 00:50

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Hi there...

I also have one and I was just talking about it and although mine doesn't have a wavetable connector, believe me, I know what the hell I am talking about.

For AWE32 General MIDI, you have to do some changes in Autoexec.bat. I'll prevent you: This card is already filled with bugs and doing so will just add more of them !
About General MIDI through your daughterboad ? I don't see any problems, except for "hanging notes" bug (this can be arranged).

Maybe a conflict with ports?

Reply 2 of 5, by Rackatack

Posted on 2016-11-28, 18:27

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Hi Frasco,

Thank you for your reply, I started to have an irq conflict before but was able to address that by checking features in the bios.
I don't have any conflicts anymore, and when dunning "diagnose" everything is detected the way it should, and don't have any "hanging notes" unless i "force quit" the program I'm running.

Reply 3 of 5, by Frasco

Posted on 2016-11-28, 19:39

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No problem.
Now that you said IRQ, you really want to use your card in Port 220h IRQ 5 (default).
You can do it using CTCU.EXE or BIOS.

Rackatack wrote:

running "diagnose" everything is detected the way it should

Does diagnose play MIDI from your AWE32 or from your daughterboard ?
To tell you the truth, I 'm a little lost here.
Last thing I remember was me using a SB16 + daughterboard (from Roland).

My scenario : SB16 + daughterboard (FM port + 330h = no conficts)
Yours : SBAWE32 + daughterboard (EMU8000 port 330h or 620h + daughterboard 330h = ????)
Sorry, none of my AWE32 sports a wavetable connector.

Rackatack wrote:

I don't have any "hanging notes" unless i "force quit" the program I'm running.

"Hanging notes" bug is a different animal! It will manifest in a SB16 in no time, but in a AWE32, it can take hours.
And that's why you are not aware of this terrible thing.

Reply 4 of 5, by Rackatack

Posted on 2016-11-28, 19:45

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A little update on my issue, I think it may be more a driver related issue than a settings issue, it's a PNP card, and everything is detected correctly, and I don't have any issues on Windows
IRQ or DMA issue will more cause a "no sound" issue instead of "faint sound" There is something comming out of the card, but I have to put the volume of my sound system way to loud

Reply 5 of 5, by Frasco

Posted on 2016-11-28, 21:23

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Drivers ? Have you updated Diagnose to 4.05 and AWEUTIL to 1.36 or better ?

Loose canon ! 😀

But this saved me once.

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