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General Discussion / NWC File Format/Modified NWC WinAmp Plugin?
Over in my "SoundFont" thread here in the forum there was a little discussion about the NWC WinAmp plugin not working with XMPlay (it supports *some* WinAmp plugins). When attempting to run XMPlay with the NWC WinAmp plugin installed, the following error message is displayed:

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Unsupported Plugin
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in_nwc.dll "NWC File Player (2.0)"

This plugin is not supported by XMPlay because it uses it's own output.


I had asked Ian Luck (the author of XMPlay) about this, and he posted the following over in his XMPlay forums:

Quote from: Ian @ un4seen
Winamp input plugins can work in 1 of 2 ways: send the sample data to Winamp (or XMPlay) to be played via the usual output channels, or output the data themselves. XMPlay only supports the former, and the latter results in the message above.

Does this particular plugin depend on special hardware? If not, there is probably no need for it to output the data itself and doing so just limits its use, eg. no DSP can be applied.

Perhaps the plugin could be updated to use Winamp's output instead?


I also asked him about native support for playback of NWC format files using his own SoundFont compatable MIDI Plugin for XMPlay, and he stated (of course) that he would need the specs for the various NWC file formats (but would be happy to add NWC support for XMPlay if he had them).


So my questions to the NWC authors:

Are the NWC file format specs available anywhere and/or is there any chance of updating the NWC WinAmp plugin as Ian described above?
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General Discussion / ¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0
Hi Folks,

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I've been an NWC user since version 1.x (I honestly forget which ".x" version, it's been so long, currently I have installed and use version 1.75). Anyhow, throughout the year(s) I've noticed a bit of discussion about soundfonts.

Back in March I released a custom soundfont of mine, "¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0", and had posted several announcements around the Internet about it. I just realized that I hadn't posted anything here about it (or had posted any other messages here at all, for that matter).

Anyways, a full description is here -> richnagel*net/#soundfonts . Downloads (hosted at Ian Luck's web site; he's the creator of the freeware media player "XMPlay", as well as the "Bass" sound programming libraries) here -> un4seen*com/download*php?extra/WeedsGM3 .

Hope y'all like it, and it proves useful to someone :)


Rich

(Edit) Apparently I didn't have the proper membership level to post URLs, I've substituted asterisks (* = .) so's I could post the links. Sorry about that, I hope the admins/moderators don't mind.