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Broken MPU-401 support in Windows XP?

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First post, by fillosaurus

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Had tried my PCI cards with wavetable header with my NEC DB60-XG clone.
Did not manage to get XG MIDI in XP.
The cards are an Aztech PCI 338 (Vortex 1) and Terratec 128i (ESS Solo 1).
I got no sound from the Vortex, and EXTREMELY low volume from the ESS.
Both work flawless in my Glide system (VIA ApolloPro+Windows 98 ), so I suspect bad XP drivers.
Any ideas, sugesstions? I am playing Final Fantasy 7, and a forum member said in a post in another of my topics that a DB is the best to enjoy FF7 music, since Yamaha 7x4 based PCI cards are half hardware half software XG solutions.

Y2K box: AMD Athlon K75 (second generation slot A)@700, ASUS K7M motherboard, 256 MB SDRAM, ATI Radeon 7500+2xVoodoo2 in SLI, SB Live! 5.1, VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, 40 GB Seagate HDD.
WIP: external midi module based on NEC wavetable (Yamaha clone)

Reply 1 of 2, by Old Thrashbarg

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Well, I can't really help much, but FWIW, I know the Vortex-based cards don't really work in XP... yeah, there are some drivers that can sometimes result in some sound output with the right combination of dumb luck and voodoo dances, but realistically those things should be considered Win9x-only cards.

Perhaps look into getting a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz? Those work flawlessly in XP, and they have a wavetable header.

Edit: Come to think of it, though... have you double-checked to make sure it's not something simple like the MIDI volume being turned down low in the Windows mixer?

Reply 2 of 2, by fillosaurus

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^^ Of course I did. FM midi works, MPU-401 not. Same thing with both cards, and they are different enough. Only thing they have in common is the wt header.

Y2K box: AMD Athlon K75 (second generation slot A)@700, ASUS K7M motherboard, 256 MB SDRAM, ATI Radeon 7500+2xVoodoo2 in SLI, SB Live! 5.1, VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, 40 GB Seagate HDD.
WIP: external midi module based on NEC wavetable (Yamaha clone)

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