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- coolsoft
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I'm not an expert on DosBox but, AFAIR (I'm a long-time computer geek ;)), the MPU-401 was the hardware MIDI-Out interface available in DOS era.
Selecting it you're telling your game to play the MIDI stream out to that interface.
Any other setting like SoundBlaster* means "do not play MIDI but play analog sounds through this analog device", or "try to render this MIDI with SoundBlaster emulation".
In this configurations, being VMS a (virtual) MIDI device, it is not used at all.
Webbie wrote:just wanted to know if there was some setting in DOSBOX or VMS to get Soundblaster to let midi play through to VMS using custom soundfonts
SoundBlaster is an analog device or, better, has its own MIDI emulation (don't know if the hardware MIDI synthis emulated by DosBox), so it's unrelated with VMS.
- Webbie
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Was wondering why soundblaster setting wouldn't output to virtualmidi.... Thanks coolsoft, nicely explained.
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