From:	Shawn Hargreaves <shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject:	Re: Allegro's MIDI player?
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:39:30 +0100
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tomcat2 AT soback DOT kornet DOT nm DOT kr writes:
> I've compared Allegro MIDI player with Win95's MIDI player on my machine.
> In most of MIDI files, Allegro MIDI player plays worse than Win95's
MIDI-P.
> ( I had also changed MIDI setting many times, but I coudn't get the same
> play as Win95. )
> 
>  I have Sound Blaster 16 on my machine.

The only significant difference here is the FM instrument patches being
used by the driver. The ones in Allegro came from a library called MID-KIT
made by John Pollard: I'm not sure where he originally got them from. To
make the playback sound closer to the Win95 drivers, you'll need to locate
an appropriate set of OPL instrument defs and insert them into the file
fm_instr.h. I've no idea where you'd look for such a thing: if you do find
any better instruments, please send me a copy!


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