alright! more web searching, patience and ingenuity threw the following methods:
The gm.dls file is located under the windows/system32 directory, this is also true of windows7 By replacing this file with a better one.. yes, you don't have reberv ETC but you would have better sounds, definitely. Maybe.. if I install the roland synth.. and replace.. their gm.dls file or whatever dls file they use I can get sort of a custom downloadable sound with higher quality and potentially also have reberv ETC with all of that? ANyone knows? this is interesting territory! I will get a different .dls file and replace the gm.dls with it to konw what happens... file system protection should be turned off indeed! 2011/8/13, Raymond Grote <[email protected]>: > Unfortunately, most of the soundfont synths you mention are only stand > alone, and the ones that are in realtime have their problems. If you > absolutely must have realtime soundfonts, Synth Font is a pretty good > sollution, the only problem is its midi implementation is about as basic as > Microsoft's is. No effects, no advanced tinkering with the sounds. xM play > is by far the best, I'm stilll hoping some day it'll become available as a > VST or something that can be used in realtime. SFZ is good as well but it > has its own significant problems. It's certainlly fine if that's all you'll > be using, but midis sequenced using it will not sound right with anything > else. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shaun everiss" <[email protected]> > To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:52 AM > Subject: Re: QWS List replacing microsoft gs wave-table synth > > >>I did try to fix it and ended up having to reformat. >> There is just no modern midisynths around. >> One suggestion is getting something like synthfonts on winamp or xm player >> >> there is a crappy one for cmedia I know of, and onj has one and they may >> be others though you need loads of ram though in most cases thats not a >> major issue anymore. >> At 05:10 p.m. 13/08/2011, you wrote: >>>Well, I'm in your boat as far as the Yamaha SYXG50 goes. Being the >>>careless person I am, I tried to install the SYXG100 because I heard it >>>had better sounds. The thing didn't even install properly, either the >>>installer was broken or it had problems uninstalling my pre-existing >>>SYXG50, or a little of both. As a result, now i'm stuck with no SYXG, >>>except when I use the VST. I can't even reinstall because the installer >>>says that it's already installed but cannot remove it. I've run registry >>>cleaners, and tried to remove everything I can myself. I also went into >>>the registry and removed any SYXG references but if I did any more I'd >>>probably risk damaging my system since i don't know enough about it. >>>That's when I started using the Roland VSC which has been working for the >>>time being. >>>A keyboard is probably your best way to go as many others have said, if >>>you're willing to do that. I trust Yamaha and Roland to have some good >>>keyboards. All you really need to focus on are sounds and audio >>>capabilities, you don't need to have a library of instruments on the >>>keyboard unless you intend to do a decent amount of midi work on the >>>keyboard. >>>As for buying a software synth, I would certainly buy one, but I haven't >>>looked around much. I'd have to make a wise choice though, since I along >>>with many others can't afford to buy every synth we see, if they are even >>>still being supported, which many aren't. >>>Idealy i'd get some soundfont driver. Then I can choose the sounds I want >>>to use. It all goes back to soundfonts or keyboards... >>>Okay, I'm done rambling. Let us know if you find something that works for >>>you. >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Bello" <[email protected]> >>>To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:28 AM >>>Subject: Re: QWS List replacing microsoft gs wave-table synth >>> >>> >>>>this is great information! the yamaha sxg works on xp with sp3, you >>>>know. But then I come and install it here.. and then.. nothing >>>>happens. the device just never shows. I would really dislike to have >>>>to open 2 programs just to get decent quality in a midi file so your >>>>option of thigns that the computer sees as internal synths is a great >>>>idea, Ia m even willing to get some good interesting optoins even if >>>>Ihave to buy them. >>>> >>>>2011/8/12, Raymond Grote <[email protected]>: >>>>>I have been looking for such a thing myself, and I'm using XP SP3 here. >>>>>I'm >>>>>not sure if this would work on newer operating systems, but for now, I >>>>>use >>>>>the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas. As you might know, the Microsoft synth >>>>>is >>>>>just a stripped down roland SC55 sound set. The roland virtual Sound >>>>>Canvas >>>>>has all the same sounds, plus aroun 700 others, which by today's >>>>>standards >>>>>sound awful but compared to the crappy thing Microsoft gives you, it's >>>>>pretty good. The roland VSC also has effects like reverb, chorus, and >>>>>delay, >>>>>although the delay I never really use. The reverb and chorus are >>>>>acceptable. >>>>>the sampling rate of the sounds is still 22 K, even if you go into VSC's >>>>>control panel and change it, you can here that they are just being >>>>>resampled >>>>>from 22 to 44, and it does sound a little better that way. >>>>>Overall it's nothing to get excited about, but I was so desperate for >>>>>something better that I didn't complain when someone gave it to me. >>>>>Since you don't want vsts, that rules out the Yamaha SYXG50 VSTI, which >>>>>I >>>>>also have, and use occasionally. You can try Timidity, a relatively old >>>>>synth that supports soundfonts, and installs itself as a midi device >>>>>like >>>>>the creative synths, however Timidity has so many problems with reading >>>>>loops in some soundfonts, and accepting program changes, that I didn't >>>>>use >>>>>it for long. It allows you to configure the effects, and to load midis >>>>>and >>>>>convert them to audio, but the above problems didn't make it worth >>>>>playing >>>>>with the rest. >>>>> >>>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>>From: "Juan Bello" <[email protected]> >>>>>To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> >>>>>Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:52 PM >>>>>Subject: QWS List replacing microsoft gs wave-table synth >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>-- >>>>>>Juan Pablo Bello >>>>>>Cel. 313-879-2884 >>>>>>Hi listers >>>>>> >>>>>>I had upgraded my system to windows 7 pro on this netbook and really >>>>>>am Missing the sound of the yamaha sxg 50 softsynth. I tried really >>>>>>hard to install it using compatibility mode ETC but the thing just >>>>>>will not work anymore, its quite outdated anyway, at least using my >>>>>>configuration had failed. Xp service pack 2 with admin privilleges on >>>>>>for setup but no luck at all. I have tried looking into the web and >>>>>>have found a bunch of vst plug ins which are great but they imply the >>>>>>oppening of another program and consequently more ram ETC ETC . so if >>>>>>there is any other soft synth or such replacement for the gs wave >>>>>>table from microsoft I would really apreciat your input. Note> >>>>>>replacing the sound card will be veyr very hard to do because this >>>>>>notebook has a realtec soundcard with USB jacks atatched to IT ETC so >>>>>>I really do not know if there are any other higher quality midi >>>>>>rendering cards out there that would work with this asus eee 1005ha . >>>>>>Suggestions? >>>>>>To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com >>>>>> >>>>>>for archived list posts, see >>>>>>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>>>> >>>>>To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com >>>>> >>>>>for archived list posts, see >>>>>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Juan Pablo Bello >>>>Cel. 313-879-2884 >>>>To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com >>>> >>>>for archived list posts, see >>>>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>> >>>To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com >>> >>>for archived list posts, see >>>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> >> To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com >> >> for archived list posts, see >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > > for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > -- Juan Pablo Bello Cel. 313-879-2884 To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
