Yes. There are several options of varying levels of complexity.
Your simplest option is to load a sound driver like BassMIDI or Coolsoft and
fill it with cool sounds you download from the web. Your level of
involvement can vary from loading a GS sound font bank and leaving it alone
to downloading every sound you can get your hands on and building a
multi-bank sound font layout in Viena (note that's not a typo) to create a
map of sounds. Note that this will also require building an instrument
definition file too, but Viena outputs patch lists so it's not as difficult
as it could be. This is the only option that will let you share your .mid
files as long as you keep to GS sounds, as the GS sound list is common to
all modern machines. (As you've already found out with the laggy Microsoft
wavetable)
Your next level of engagement involves downloading a good freeware synth,
preferably a sample playback/"ROMpler" program and setting up a virtual MIDI
cable to connect things together. It'll show up in QWS as a MIDI port, and
it's helpful to rename that port in QWS so it tells you where that
particular port is going. Again, unless you're dealing with a well-known
synth, like Proteus VX, you'll need to create a definition file.
Another option is to use a virtual MIDI cable to connect to VSTHost or
another VST manager. This is flexible, as it allows you to set individual
VST Sound sources on each channel. It takes more work, and again it'll
require you to create a definition file if you want the program names to
show up in your list.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam
Doman
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2019 5:36 PM
To: QWS list <[email protected]>
Subject: QWS List Looking for better sounds

Hi all, so I've been using QWS for a while now and I have a question. Are
there any ways I can get better midi sounds besides the crappy Microsoft GS
Wavetable synth? My keyboard does not have any built-in sounds.

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