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SB Live dos midi output issues

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First post, by brownz

Posted on 2019-12-01, 09:58

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Hi All!
Just need a steer in the right direction for an issue I am having with my soundblaster Live (SB0100) in dos 7.1 outputting midi via the gameport on my soundcard. I have all of the equipment and the software setup on a windows 10 tablet as per Phil's guide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRyPjvbDkvg&t=728s. This setup works fine in windows after i changed the midi output to the gameport rather than via the audio output. Sound and midi works fine via the audio port in native dos mode, but I just cant seem to figure out how to get the midi to output via the gameport as I know that the midi cable is not detecting any midi input via the led indicators on the cable. I feel like I'm missing a tool or something that will allow me to change the midi output path to the gameport rather than the midi outputting via the audio port. If anyone has any advice it will be greatly appreciated! Cheers!

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also i have copied phils midiemu.zip package and run that but it is not making any difference, im pretty sure its got nothing to do with changing the midi output path but i could be wrong about that and would appreciate being told otherwise and what i am doing wrong, thanks again!

Reply 1 of 4, by pyrogx

Posted on 2019-12-01, 10:17

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Short and simple answer: It won't work, sorry. The gameport of the SBLive (and all the other PCI soundcards from Creative) cannot be used for MIDI under plain DOS. This only works from within Windows. You need to get a different soundcard.

Reply 2 of 4, by brownz

Posted on 2019-12-01, 10:21

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ahh I see alright ill have to consider weather I want to do that, seeing as midi does work in dos at the moment (just via the audio output so no midi emulation), i might just stick with that then I'm not sure I want to invest more than I have into that. Thank you for your answer it is much appreciated 😀

Reply 3 of 4, by chinny22

Posted on 2019-12-03, 12:00

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Or you can play your dos games from within windows if your happy to sacrifice the command line feel for the external midi

Reply 4 of 4, by brownz

Posted on 2019-12-03, 23:20

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yeah thats definetly an option chinny22. I'm trying to play descent and for some reason my descent folder in windows comes up all corrupted and wrong file names ect, but in native dos the files names are fine and the game runs as expected. I think im having a partition problem that i need to look into, haven't gone down that road yet, but i need to resolve it because some of the other game folders i have when viewing them in windows is having the same problem, but some are not, even though they are in the same root directory, weird.

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when I say i think im having a partition problem, i suspect its probably a windows 98 limitation with partitions sizes ect or something along those lines, ill look into it.

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