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[Christian Brandt <brandtc AT psi5.com>]

Samual Acorn schrieb:

> the XG seems to be like a hybrid of directly programmable chips and
> general midi... the file is zipped with both the .ogg and the .midi
> file that was played to get the ogg... while technically the midi file
> will play on anything it wont work right on anything other than the XG
> due to the extended instructions XG has that general midi doesnt...
> see how it does with the clavicorda keyboard...

 I still have a DB50XG around, but as you can not connect it to modern 
hardware it is basically a dustcatcher. At least Yamaha has released the 
SW50XG which is basically a pure software-emulation of the ROM, the 
H8-RISC-CPU and the DSPs requiring fast MMX-systems. And I mean fast. My 
800Mhz Athlon was too slow. My 1200Mhz Athlon did the trick. All the old 
XG-tunes work perfect. But it is windows-only and therefore offtopic. 
Btw, Yamaha gave SW50XG to me for free because the DB50XG wasn't usable 
in newer systems after I used the board for six years. Talk about service.

 Btw, google the Internet for "soundblaster soundbanks". While most of 
them are far away from the mighty DB50XG many are really worth a try and 
beat the usually blunt timidity soundbanks. My 2 cent, don't go for the 
biggest soundbanks at first as a 512MB soundbank is in real life and on 
older hardware pretty useless. Try 2MB, 16MB for a start. They should 
work perfectly within timidity. Most of them are free as there is a big 
fanmovement of people which create their own soundfonts.

There was a great german site with literally dozends of soundbanks all 
in a row but I lost the URL :-(

Christian Brandt