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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
>
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 00:37:06 +0000 (UTC)
> sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > Today I tried out FreeCDP which Ron Clarke recommended for DOS and it
> > played the test midi file  Fur Elise perfectly.  What a surprise!
> >
> > I have not got it to play anything else properly.
>
>  If you mean other types of sound files, then I agree that it does MIDIs
> best, and the rest is a bit hit and miss. I use other players for other
> sound file types.
>
>  But if you mean other MIDIs, why don't you try it on a few MIDIs that
> I have sequenced - follow Tadpole Tunes in my signature below.

I tried it on a few midis that came with drivers for other sound cards and 
it sounded absolutely TERRIBLE.  Very slow (1/10 speed) and very loud.  Is 
there some way to speed it up?  At that speed I could not tell if it was 
using different sounds for different instruments.  Maybe it is aimed only 
at newer SB32AWE cards, PCI?

I will be happy to listen to your midis if I can get this program to work, 
or with my working DOS AWE32 midi player pmb, from SAC archives 
pmb123.zip.  I have that working in DOS online with lynx (and something 
else for wav files - plany?).  Do you have a linux MIDI player working in 
combination with a browser?

I have only 1MB of sound patches (sample sounds) so I doubt I will get the 
full effect of your music.

Perhaps we had better keep DOS midi discussions off the list unless anyone 
else here is interested and Steven does not mind.

I could not even get the test LEFT CENTER RIGHT sounds to play (wav?).

> Regards,
>         Ron
>
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