Frayo Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 I should be known on the forums as the MIDI wannabe. I want to change my MIDI voices. I want to upgrade them..Anyone have a MIDI voice driver or something from XP? "When all you have is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail" AIM: RaiyoKun EMAIL: frayo@earthlink.net www.livejournal.com/users/frayo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeronyne Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Are you talking about choir/human/singing voices? "Voices" is a very generic term in MIDI...you'll have to be a bit more specific. "For instance" is not proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumdumdadumdum Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 assuming you mean upgrading the sounds of your soundcard: that's not possible with a simple driver-upgrade. At least, if you a have the likes of a soundblaster card. You have a few options here: -buy a (gm)module, and connect it to your computer. try the Korg N5r, it doesn't cost much second-hand. -install a daughterboard. Yamaha and Roland have "expansion"boards for your soundcard (check if your soundcard supports these daughterboards first!) -go for the softsynths! There's a softsynth version of Yamaha's XG-modules on the market among others. These software synths offer great bang-for-the-buck. no, you're not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frayo Posted February 25, 2004 Author Share Posted February 25, 2004 I have a Roland Soundcard. You know when you play a MIDI with a standard MIDI player? Or when you use a sequencer that uses these same voices? Those are the voices Im talking about. "When all you have is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail" AIM: RaiyoKun EMAIL: frayo@earthlink.net www.livejournal.com/users/frayo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dementia13 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 What you're talking about is the General MIDI soundset, actually a GS soundset on a Roland. The aforementioned products are up your alley. If your soundcard is very cheesy, these are some cheap alternatives: - Control Panel->Sound etc.-> change your default playback MIDI device to the Microsoft wavetable, and see if it sounds better. That also might be a Roland soundset, as is the Quick Time Synthesizer. - Open the sequences with Quick Time and see if that sounds better. - the Roland VSC, a softsynth version of the GS soundset. You install it and do the same Control Panel trick. Actually, it probably does the configuring for you. It's one of those pieces of software that assigns itself as the default for everything and is very hard to get rid of if you want or need to. - Got a keyboard with a GM soundset? Got a PC MIDI interface? Assign the MIDI interface as the MIDI playback device, and run the MIDI out to the keyboard/module. DooM sounded killer through a QS6. - Don't got a keyboard or module? Reread Dumdum's post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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