 Re: MIDI files on MS-Win3.1 and SoundBlaster 1.0?
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The Cybard  wrote:
: I have a 486DX-33 computer with a SoundBlaster 1.0 card.  I'm running
: Microsoft Windows v3.1.  I have the SB driver set up properly to play
: normal sounds .  I want to play midi files through the
: Media Player that is included with windows.  I know I have to set up the
: patch maps or something in the MIDI-Mapper in the Control Panel.  I KNOW
: NOTHING ABOUT MIDI.  

: How do I set up Windows so that I can play MIDI files?
If you install the Soundblaster windows drivers correctly, and have
the latest drivers, the media player should be setup to play files
authored to Microsoft's Multimedia midi authoring standard , see the section in the back of the Voyetra manual in the
Soundblaster midi upgrade kit.
You'll find that midi files exist with all kinds of different
mappings, so don't expect them to always sound correct without using
some kind of midi file editor, such as Voyetra's Sequencer Plus.

You can attempt to use the midi-mapper to remap the patches for
soundblaster, but since you cannot modify the sbfm.drv you are allways
stuck with the instruments that come with this driver.  Unless you can
find an editor for making modifications to the instrument settings in
sbfm.drv , I would suggest you locate the early version of
soundblaster drivers that were mapped to mt32 voices, and the later
drivers that are mapped to the general midi voices.   
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: David Thomas Dudek /       \     __   _ The Cybard
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