Then, I loaded up the Soundfont my old card was using in the Soundfonts tab: So I thought I would try it out and, what do you know, it works great! I was even able to load the SoundFont that my Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro was using.Īnyway, since my website uses Windows Media Player to play its MIDI files with, I did need to use this software to change MIDI Mapper’s Default MIDI Out Device from Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth to CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth: So, I went searching on the internet and found an article aptly titled: How to Make Midi Files Sound Better on Windows, which led me to CoolSoft’s VirtualMIDISynth. I also looked at the Sound Control Panel Applet and noticed that there was no option to set a default MIDI playback device like Windows XP had (which I still find rather odd.) Anyway, I knew the problem wasn’t so much the audio chipset (well, yes, it does have an impact) but the lack luster MIDI instrument samples that ship with Windows 7 which the included “Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth” uses. I do still have the Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro that was in my old system however, I just never felt like going through the effort of trying to get it to work in this system due to its age and probably limited support in Windows 7 64-bit. Regular MP3s and other digital music formats sound fine on it but MIDI files sounded like crap for the most part compared to my old system. This new system has Windows 7 Pro/SP1 64-bit and has a Realtek ALC892 Audio chipset in it.
For those that might remember, my old computer system had a melt-down of sorts and I had to get a new one.
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