From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro MIDI question
Date:	Sat, 15 Mar 1997 15:09:58 +0000
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Deltaman writes:
>the and using it as a temporary background tune in my game. It was so
>easy to use it. But then I loaded the same .mid into the Win 95 Media
>Player and there it sounded a lot better and it used all channels.
>
>My question is: Is it possible to use all channels in Allegro? It would
>sound a lot better.

What soundcard do you have? Allegro currently only has MIDI drivers for
the OPL synth chips and the MPU-401 interface, so it won't use a GUS or
AWE32 to their full potential.

Tero Parvinen is working on a GUS driver, but there are problems with
implementing native AWE support due to Creative Labs having a bizarre
policy about not releasing programming specs for their hardware. There
are various reverse-engineered docs floating around the net, but a
driver won't happen until someone with a lot of time on their hands is
willing to sit down and figure out how to make it all work...

Another thing that should be available sometime over the next couple of
months is a sample-based MIDI driver, which will use the cpu mixing
routines to play wavetable music on standard SB cards. I expect the cpu
load will be quite high, but it should sound a lot better than those
horrible synthesised squawks :-)


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