hypr Posted July 4, 2002 ok in windows 98 when i run legacy with music wads i made the music is pretty much digital but in windows 2000 it sounds more high quality like the instruments sound more realistic 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted July 5, 2002 Better MIDI integration in Win2k, maybe? Hmm. 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted July 5, 2002 I noticed that too. Win2k seems to have a better default MIDI synth than Win9x. 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted July 5, 2002 Win2k and WinXP use Microsoft's MIDI synthesizer, while Win95/Win98 use a different one. I noticed this cause on my old PC it sounded different to my new one. I played the midi's through Winamp, and stuffed around with the settings, and it had the info there. You could change to the microsoft synth on the old PC, so if you like that, you can do it. 0 Share this post Link to post
hypr Posted July 5, 2002 what would be the best midi synthesiser if any out there be ? 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted July 5, 2002 Not Yamaha softsynth, that's for sure. Stick with the default, it's compatible with everything. 0 Share this post Link to post
hypr Posted July 5, 2002 there is something like that for ff7 or ff8 they have a yamaha synth soft option 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted July 5, 2002 Yamaha Softsynth sounds really good as long as the program is compatible. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted July 5, 2002 hypr said:there is something like that for ff7 or ff8 they have a yamaha synth soft option Final Fantasy 7 has that option when you install it. 0 Share this post Link to post
SyntherAugustus Posted July 6, 2002 dos versions of doom play midis AY-Ok. windows makes the best songs sound and look bad. 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted July 6, 2002 RailGunner said:dos versions of doom play midis AY-Ok. windows makes the best songs sound and look bad. pssssh. It's all about hardware. Doom's music sounded alright on my SB16 in DOS. I soon changed my opinion after playing it on a friend's computer who had an AWE32 installed. It was much better. Windows 2000 uses it's internal MIDI synthesiser to produce better MIDI sounds than the sound card is capable of with hardware if you select it - you can select to do it with hardware, but it doesn't sound as good. I think it's a good idea, but it would always run slow with my old POS soundcard (I had an FM801, now have an SB Live! and as a result don't need to use the software synthesiser). 0 Share this post Link to post