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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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Windows XP filesharing again …
Sometimes Windows can really drive you crazy … It hadn’t been too long since I had managed to make my shared files accessible to everyone on the network without entering a password, but now it was again broken, although I hadn’t changed any settings since then. Again, I was prompted for username and password when…
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Windows XP: Filesharing without password
Each time I reinstall Windows (which thanks to good care only happens every few years in my case), I have to struggle with setting up the stupid Windows file sharing afterwards. The problem is that Windows will allow only logged-in users to access shared files. So when anyone tries to access them, he will always…
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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…