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Sep 25, 2001, 9:29pm

Call me crazy but I really like my midis, but AW 3.2 makes them sound so
unbearably horrible I had to turn off my speakers. I reinstalled 3.1 as you
might imagine.

Sep 25, 2001, 9:48pm

I haven't had any problems with midis - more likely than not your midi
driver is out of date. Check the Multimedia control panel and adjust the
settings there.

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Sep 25, 2001, 10:04pm

Do you have the latest version of Windows Media Player? Its 7.1 I think, also, hardware specs as
well so I might be able to forward this to the beta NG's which Roland reads? Thanks :)

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Sep 25, 2001, 10:49pm

Its the ground that i have problems with

[View Quote] > Do you have the latest version of Windows Media Player? Its 7.1 I think, also, hardware specs as
> well so I might be able to forward this to the beta NG's which Roland reads? Thanks :)
>
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Sep 25, 2001, 11:06pm

It has nothing to do with "Media Player". It's called "DirectSound", from a
company called "Microsoft".

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Sep 25, 2001, 11:09pm

well the "Microsoft Media Player" now plays sounds for 3.2. Read up on it
before you blabl your mouth.


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Sep 26, 2001, 12:21am

thanks for saving me the typing of that, hehe :)

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Sep 26, 2001, 12:37am

haha windoze. what a waste of an OS kernel. who ever wrote it should be shot
right now. I haven't installed windoze on my computer since 3.x came out.
Only RH Linux for me.

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Sep 26, 2001, 1:55am

Quick, IA! Find someone who cares before they run away! Yeesh, yer
starting to sound like Wing :P

[View Quote] > haha windoze. what a waste of an OS kernel. who ever wrote it should be shot
> right now. I haven't installed windoze on my computer since 3.x came out.
> Only RH Linux for me.
>
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Egos run rampant...
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Sep 26, 2001, 2:40am

To answer the responses, yes I do have the latest sound drivers (in fact, I
can safely say that every last thing on my computer is the latest, unless I
didn't want to upgrade of course). I *use* to have WMP 7.1 but for some
reason, whenever I opened something in it, it would freeze my computer up
for about a minute. I downgraded to 6.4 and that works for me. By the way,
the midis sound just as bad in both versions of WMP.

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Sep 26, 2001, 4:23pm

3.1 used DirectSound, which in turn used the Microsoft Synthesizer for
midis. This is slower and quite processor intensive if you have a slow one
like me, but sounds really good because it uses actual soundbytes of
instruments (wavetable synthesis). 3.2 has now sent midi playing back to the
soundcard itself. If you have an older soundcard (like I do) that uses
cheapo FM synthesis instead of wavetable, or does a poor job of wavetable
synthesis, the midis are going to sound lamer. They do for me. However, I've
no 3D card, so am in software render mode, am loving that I can now see
lights, fog and moving objects. Skyboxes look pretty flippin' cool too. I'm
sticking with 3.2.

Maybe your midis sound like crap for some other reason, maybe not. Just my
thoughts.

Percipient.



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Sep 26, 2001, 5:19pm

Heh, I havn't sounded like much of anything in a long time.
*silence*

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Sep 26, 2001, 6:29pm

Hey, where's the "official" review of 3.2 on awnews.com? Guess someone's
getting lazy :)

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Sep 26, 2001, 7:12pm

It's up! :-)
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Sep 26, 2001, 10:54pm

the FM synthesizer is most likely correct. My sound card's wavetable synthesis likes to freeze up Windows while AW is running, so I avoid it
and leave it on the FM synthesizer. yuck. there should at least be an option to pick Direct Music or the sound card...

[View Quote] >3.1 used DirectSound, which in turn used the Microsoft Synthesizer for
>midis. This is slower and quite processor intensive if you have a slow one
>like me, but sounds really good because it uses actual soundbytes of
>instruments (wavetable synthesis). 3.2 has now sent midi playing back to the
>soundcard itself. If you have an older soundcard (like I do) that uses
>cheapo FM synthesis instead of wavetable, or does a poor job of wavetable
>synthesis, the midis are going to sound lamer [...]
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http://tonyhttp.s5.com

Sep 27, 2001, 3:56am

My sound system is insane on my computer (never wanted it to be, lol). It
has 4 devices that can play sound =P - The main sound card, motherboard
onboard sound card, the graphic card, and the modem can all be used for
sound output.

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Sep 30, 2001, 7:50pm

A graphics card with audio abilities? Never knew there was such a thing.
"Sounds" like a waste of space on the board, to me.


"sw comit" <sam64 at jps.net> wrote...
My sound system is insane on my computer (never wanted it to be, lol). It
has 4 devices that can play sound =P - The main sound card, motherboard
onboard sound card, the graphic card, and the modem can all be used for
sound output.

Sep 30, 2001, 8:13pm

He bought a pre-made computer. If it's a gateway, perhaps Ted should stop
listening to that cow that happens to sound like Brain on Animaniacs. ^_^
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SW Chris
Eagle Scout, Philosopher, Peacemaker, and... Kung Fu Master?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

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Sep 30, 2001, 9:29pm

Gateway? No, and it's hardly pre-made, as in I told them exactly what I want
in it, they just put it together. As for the graphic card, I *think* it
might have something to do with the TV tuner, but I dunno.

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