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Better MIDI sound, part III – SoundFonts in Windows with BASSMIDI
Still many readers are coming here because of my posts about MIDI. Most visitors are especially interested in improving their MIDI sound windows-wide, so it won’t sound like a cheap Chinese toy anymore. ;) I described one way to achieve this goal in a previous post. However, this information is more than two years old…
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“Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7
We’re writing the year 1997. Small Ginchen is about fifteen years old, when “Cryo Interactive” release the first game of the “Atlantis” series. We had a PlayStation 1, and someone gave us a few games for it – including “Atlantis”. It wasn’t particularly comfortable to play an adventure game with the control pad, but I…
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Ireland’s Eye
I recently searched YouTube for the beautiful, calm little song by Mike Oldfield that I’ve had an earworm from for days, and I was appalled to find that nobody has uploaded it yet. Well, actually it is not even a song of its own, but the very silent end of “Orabidoo”, sung by Maggie Reilly. However, I…
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Better Midi sound, part II – Soundfonts in Windows with Timidity
Attention: This post is a little old, and I’ve written a new one with a more modern and less complicated solution. You can find it here. After a comment on my debut post “Better Midi sound”, I decided to have a look at Timidity for Windows again. Back then, I simply hadn’t understood the program.…
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Better Midi sound
Note: This post has not been fully translated yet. A few weeks ago I started again to concern myself with an issue that I’ve been struggling with every now and then for almost 10 years: How can you improve the sound of MIDI files on the computer with simple means? By “simple” I mean: I…