Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:14:13 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: mejm2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro MIDI
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On 10 Mar 1997, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 	It somewhat irritates me that people with cheap cards can get
> better MIDI than my AWE32. Is there any Creative address that we can all
> write polite, but blunt messages to demanding information ?

I have a cheap soundcard with OPL3 and an external MIDI port (but I don't
have a synth). However, I can get _very_ good, wavetable sound out of it
using Timidity (at terrible CPU cost -- 60% of a 486dx2). Now Timidity is
for UNIX, but the Timidity page mentions something similar for DOS..


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