The page also has links to some free soundfonts. Visit here to get more information and download the installer. VirtualMIDISynth is a nice software General MIDI synthesizer based on BASSMIDI library, and it also uses soundfonts.

More information about the General MIDI SoundFont can be found Here, and additional discussion can be found in This Message Thread in the VOGONS forums.ĭiscuss the BASSMIDI Driver in the Hydrogen Audio Forums, as well as This Message Thread in the VOGONS forums.

Detailed installation and usage instructions can be found Here or Here.ĭownload the BASSMIDI Driver installer Here, as well as a nice sounding General MIDI SoundFont to use with the driver Here. More information about the driver can be found Here or Here. The BASSMIDI MIDI Synthesizer Driver is a freeware SoundFont based Windows MIDI system driver (created by Kode54 and MudLord) for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The rest of the process should be trouble free - but do not skip restarting Windows at the end.īASSMIDI GM/GS/XG SoundFont Compatible Driver Then, from within that directory, go to START -> RUN and type 'WGINSTLR.EXE FULLSET.LST'. Installation note: After downloading wg0a4_e.exe, run it in order to extract the installation files into a temporary directory. The latest available version, 0.A4 Beta-2, can be freely obtained from the site. WinGroove has apparently been abandoned mid-development, but is still an excellent sounding general MIDI synthesizer. Installation notes are provided within the distribution archive. Using it, however, requires a copy of the original ROM images from a Roland MT-32, and these are not included with the download.

Munt is an open source project that aims to emulate the MT-32 hardware by way of a Windows XP WDM driver.

5 Using MIDI software devices under DOSBOX.

3 BASSMIDI GM/GS/XG SoundFont Compatible Driver.

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