Well, from the initial reading, it sounded like the author of this game wanted to embed a software synthesizer into his game to play the tunes. In that case I figured that unless he could find some really nice engine for producing realistic piano tunes, libmikmod or timidity (with bundled samples) would be fine and take less processing power than a physical modelling software synthesizer or something. It didn't sound to me like he was intending on using general MIDI (which gave me an extrememly biased view of MIDI as a whole until I started collecting controllers and rack gear myself... ;P).
Cheers, 784 - Michael C. Piantedosi - [EMAIL PROTECTED]