I decided to process an MIDI through an emulated Sound blaster card in a windows 98 VM.

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/SMB3-Airship-of-doom.mid SMB3 Airship (Pure Doom Remix) by AJ and the Sairain Orchestra
This is the MIDI i chose to show what this old Sound chip can do,
(hotlinked from VGmusic.com)

https://www.box.com/s/1u6ir4tz2hrlbkhag0al (Emulated Sound Blaster)

I thought this sounded kinda cool, and rather accurate to what that old windows 98 system i used to have sounded like.
after figuring out how to actually record from the Old MIDI out (which on Windows98 was an entirely different sound channel) i thought i should post it here.

Neat. I've always found it interesting that a lot of 90's soundcards - and even the earlier Super NES games - have more natural-sounding instruments than the MIDI drivers on Windows XP.

yeah, and it gets worse as windows goes farther down the line,

Windows 7 doesn't do MIDI's any justice at all.
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Edited by: The_Shadow, May 19th, 2013 @ 6:36 pm

have they changed the microsoft wavetable synth at all between windows versions? i remember 98, xp, vista, and 7 all sounding the same when they played midi

i think i might be the only one who loves the way the wavetable synth sounds

It has its applications, as does anything else.
and yeah, microsoft kept changing the wavetable sounds. raising the audio quality, and updating the MIDI playing engine.

dropping off some things i posted on MFGG.

http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/adlmidi.html (source)
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/src/adlmidi-111-win32.zip (Compiled to win32)
this emulates the OPL3 Synthesizer chip.
A bit glitchy, Maximizing the command window reduces glitches.