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Revisiting Soundfonts

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First post, by hasnopants

Posted on 2018-10-01, 20:50

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I have a Sound Blaster 16, a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1, and a Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1

These run on Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98 SE, and Windows 2000 OS's respectively.

Is there a way for any of these cards/systems to use soundfonts for either other than changing listening to MIDI files individually? The specific thing I want to do is change the way that the MIDI sounds in game (such as in DOOM (DOS or 95), Warcraft 1 and 2, Duke 3D, ect. Or is the only way to do what I am saying is with DOSBOX?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Current Systems:
DIP40|8088|640K|HERCULESGB102|PCSPKR
DIP40|V20|640K|VGA|ADLIB/TNDY/COVOX
S7|P233MMX|128M|S3ViRGEDX/DM3D|SB16
S370|P600MMX|256M|SIS630/DM3DIIX2|SBLIVE!5.1
S775|P43.4|2G|6800GS|SBAUDIGY

Reply 1 of 5, by Srandista

Posted on 2018-10-01, 20:57

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Check this article:

http://www.bredel.homepage.t-online.de/Soundf … ts-english.html

Socket 775 - ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA, Pentium E6500K, 4GB RAM, Radeon 9800XT, ESS Solo-1, Win 98/XP
Socket A - Chaintech CT-7AIA, AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9600XT, ESS ES1869F, Win 98

Reply 2 of 5, by hasnopants

Posted on 2018-10-03, 14:02

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Thanks for the tip, I read through that and maybe I am missing something but this is just a page telling me to use Audio HQ or the Soundfont manager. This loads a soundfont which seems to change the sound in Windows but not for DOS based games (Doom, Duke3D, Warcraft, ect). I already knew how to do this, as it is very obvious in the tools. What I can't seem to do is change the sound font and then have that be used for "General MIDI" in DOS based games. Is this possible without DOSBOX?

Reply 3 of 5, by Falcosoft

Posted on 2018-10-03, 18:03

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I don't think SB16 is relevant here (no soundfont support) but both SB Live! and Audigy can use the hardware based SF2 synth as default midi out for DOS programs if WDM drivers are installed. On Windows 2000/XP WDM drivers are mandatory but on Win9x Vxd drivers are more popular. In case of Vxd drivers on Win9x and also with SB16 emulation driver loaded in DOS the Ensoniq based software engine is used (loading default.ecw as soundfont) instead of the SF2 hardware synth.

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Reply 4 of 5, by hasnopants

Posted on 2018-10-04, 14:22

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Great info.

I have read that the WDM drivers for the Live! card on 98SE are pretty unstable? Regardless I will give this a shot, thank you.

Reply 5 of 5, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-10-04, 14:38

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hasnopants wrote:
Great info.

I have read that the WDM drivers for the Live! card on 98SE are pretty unstable? Regardless I will give this a shot, thank you.

WDM drivers work just fine in my 98SE builds, but I believe 98FE is not a great idea to mess around with WDM drivers.

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