How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

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How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

2003-12-20 05:00 PM

I have a Soundblaster PCI128. I know it is an ancient card and I'll propably have to buy a new soundcard someday. My problem is that I can't use the synthesizer voices that are on the soundcard and I think that's because of WinXP...

WinXp doesn't even find the midi driver for my SB128! Does anybody out there know how to get this fixed? I have tried to browse around the net for some time now.

Re: How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

Reply #1 – 2003-12-20 05:48 PM

See if the online magazine Smart Computing helps you:

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/category.asp?otid=0&searchqa=1&catid=6&wordlist=&searchtype=0&sort=0&ETID=2&ETID=3&ETID=5&ETID=4&ETID=6&ETID=9&articleYear=current&DF=&DT=&ETID=7&ETID=8&guid=np6eimye

If that link is dead, navigate from here:

http://www.smartcomputing.com/

Re: How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

Reply #2 – 2003-12-20 05:49 PM

Trying again
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/category.asp?otid=0&searchqa=1&catid=6&wordlist=&searchtype=0&sort=0&ETID=2&ETID=3&ETID=5&ETID=4&ETID=6&ETID=9&articleYear=current&DF=&DT=&ETID=7&ETID=8&guid=np6eimye

http://www.smartcomputing.com/

Re: How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

Reply #3 – 2003-12-20 06:40 PM

Thanks for the answer!

I tried to browse that webpage, unfortunatly I can't read the whole articles because I would need to subscribe for their magazine in order to read the full article...

Well I guess the best thing would be to get a new soundcard. Does for instance the more recent soundblaster cards midi sythesizers work in WinXP? Any recommendations on what soundcard I should get?

Thanx!

Re: How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

Reply #4 – 2003-12-20 07:44 PM

My apologies, I hadn't fully explored the site and didn't realize it required a subscription. I had a borrowed hardcopy of the magazine a while ago, which I relied on heavily to resolve my sound problems, and I later looked its site up without checking all the detail.

Re: How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

Reply #5 – 2003-12-23 02:04 AM

Soundblaster appears to have an xp driver update at http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp

Hopefully, that'll work for you.

Re: How do I get my Midi synthesizer and voices to work unde WinXP?

Reply #6 – 2003-12-31 02:31 PM

Thanks for the help!
After downloading the latest driver the SoundBlaster synthesizer works perfectly (: