Comment by brudgers

Comment by brudgers a day ago

6 replies

If you want Midi to render consistently across devices, you are “Significantly Out of Luck.”

The audio sounds like it sounds because Microsoft Licensed Roland’s GS Wavetable. Without that you lose timbral information.

alexjplant 18 hours ago

I remember being _very_ frustrated as a child that the music in "Hover!" sounded significantly different when we upgraded from our 486 to a Pentium II machine. The Sound Blaster gave the music a very distinct quality that was lacking in the software MIDI synthesizer.

Kwpolska a day ago

That’s not the Microsoft/Roland sound.

  • brudgers a day ago

    Canyon.mid on my windows computer is.

    • Kwpolska a day ago

      It sounds noticeably different in Windows Media Player. The video is probably using a Yamaha OPL chip, as found in Sound Blaster cards.

      • brudgers a day ago

        The video is using audio because of variable Midi rendering.

        And any OPL is almost certainly emulated, not an actual chip.