From: ellman AT xs4all DOT nl ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro midi
Date: 10 May 1997 16:54:13 GMT
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In article <02291d38$257fcf60$2141d9cd AT null>, Metroid <metroid AT cdc DOT net> wrote:
>J. Ellis <cellis AT voyageur DOT ca> wrote
>> I tried using play.exe (included with Allegro in the tests dir), and it
>> works fine except for one thing:  The midis just don't sound right!  I
>> know how they should sound cause I run them with Win95 Media Player, but
>> when I run them with play.exe they sound pretty bad.  It's as if all the
>> instruments are mixed up or something (the drums sound like someone
>> gulping, and the X-files "whistle" sound is barely discernable and much
>> too high pitched, etc.).  What could it be?  Is it a bug in Allegro, or
>> a bug in the installation?  PLEASE help, and thank you for your time:-)

>Lemme guess...you either have a Awe32 or something that actually SOUNDS
>good?  Right?
>
>Well, the problem is that Allegro still doesn't truely support anything
>above Adlib or the other old ones...i have the same problem...Anyway...they
>are some people working on it...be glad when they get it!!  
>Cya
>-- 

I have an SB16, and some MIDs still don't sound right with Allegro's player.
They sound right in Win95's Media player.

AE.