re midi files on ms win and soundblaster the cybard dudek acsu buffalo edu wrote i have a dx computer with a soundblaster card i m running microsoft windows v i have the sb driver set up properly to play normal sounds wav files etc i want to play midi files through the media player that is included with windows i know i have to set up the patch maps or something in the midi mapper in the control panel i know nothing about midi this is to be the way i ll get my feet wet how do i set up windows so that i can play midi files if you install the soundblaster windows drivers correctly and have the latest drivers the media player should be setup to play files authored to microsoft s multimedia midi authoring standard general midi see the section in the back of the voyetra manual in the soundblaster midi upgrade kit you ll find that midi files exist with all kinds of different mappings so don t expect them to always sound correct without using some kind of midi file editor such as voyetra s sequencer plus you can attempt to use the midi mapper to remap the patches for soundblaster but since you cannot modify the sbfm drv you are allways stuck with the instruments that come with this driver unless you can find an editor for making modifications to the instrument settings in sbfm drv i would suggest you locate the early version of soundblaster drivers that were mapped to mt voices and the later drivers that are mapped to the general midi voices david thomas dudek v pwxs ubvms bitnet the cybard state university dudek sun acsu buffalo edu of new york if music be the food of love buffalo play on wm shakespeare
