![]() #Yamaha xg midi windows#The Yamaha XG Midi Player for Windows 9X that comes with the S-YXG100 engine has some songs built in that show off the XG instruments. It's like another layer of tones, but still arranged in roughly GM order, so if your player doesn't have access to the different banks, it will fall back on the base GM instrument and still sound okay, if a little less like it was intended to sound. AFAIK, XG is just alternate banks of sounds - like more sound effects and different versions of instruments. Back in the 90s I remember finding a lot of MIDIs that were made to use the XG standard - I always played them through the Yamaha S-YXG midi synth first before loading them into Wingroove - my favorite rompler at the time. ![]() I know some things about yamaha's XG and GS standards, but aside from that Final Fantasy VII thing, I don't know of any other games that used it - Maybe a few of those Falcom games for Windows 9X had MIDIs that used them, tho I can't remember for sure. ![]() #Yamaha xg midi update#I sometimes use Rich Nagel's WeedsGM4 soundfont too (unlisted update from 3-4 in a link below).įor general midi playback, I layer these soundfonts in this order (the lower overwrite the presets of the upper ones): I don't really have a favorite for all games in general, I guess maybe the GXSCC soundfont is pretty neat and takes up no memory. These all play in real-time so it's pretty cool to be able to instantly switch between all of these sets, and hear what the entire soundscape of the games can be changed to.Īnother neat trick that seems on topic here is some old console emulators for NES, Sega 8 bit & Gameboy had an option to output sound through midi (using the GM Square, triangle, drum, white-noise instruments) and these also work realtime through all of these instrument banks. I also have tons of Soundfonts that are fully GM compatible - recreations of some old midi sample-rom based hardware, and fan-made GM sets made by arranging instruments ripped from various video games like Mega Man X, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Paint, Final Fantasy, etc. I just coppied the DLL files into the same subdirectory that the OP元 and MUNT plugins are. In addition, I have installed VSTs for Yamaha SY-XG50, Roland Sound Canvas VA, and a few other mostly non-gm VSTi instruments I sometimes try for fun - recreations of old synth keyboards etc. MUNT (Roland MT-32, CM-32) - These need easy-to-find ROM files - One of the links down below has them. OP元 (Sound Blaster/Yamaha Adlib in stereo) - Can load the old standard FatMan GM sound set to make Windows midis sound like I remember. The Soundfont MIDI player comes with these VSTi plugins built-in: It even succesfully receives all SYSEX commands to reconfigure the various hardware emulations (MT-32 and OP元 timbre reconfiguration on-the-fly). When I play games on my old DOS tower, I have the MIDI data piped out the DB15 Joystick port of the Sound Blaster through a USB interface into my laptop, and the audio output from the laptop emulating the MIDI hardware run back into the DOS computer's Sound Blaster Line IN to mix back with the PCM playback. Here's a video from Phil's Computer Lab showing it all in action: #Yamaha xg midi free#I'd love to have some of those original midi boxes, but the emulation is free and takes up a lot less space.įalcosoft Soundfont MIDI Player can receive MIDI streams from DOSBox, or through a USB interface to a DOS (or other) computer. ![]() You can emulate most of the old expensive midi hardware through Windows. ![]()
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