AMIGA

Testato personalmente, un'altro mondo veramente professionale, il software usa SoundFonts, praticamente usa strumenti "veri". Questo utilissimo software mi fa tornare indietro più di venti anni, quando su AMiGA non esistema una Scheda Audio, nonostante questo computer avesse un'audio superiore ad ogni altro computer, ma purtroppo era il processore Paula a suonare, quindi era praticamente impossibile eseguire con un player una base midi decente. Poi a fine anni '80 un genio nel campo, mi pare fosse anche questo Italiano, creò MrMidi, un software capace di andarsi a prendere la capionatura dello strumento per ogni nota del file Midi. Fu una rivoluzione, ogni Amighista comincio a regitrare campionature dai propri strumenti in wave e ascoltare un brano midi su questo software era straordinario, neanche una scheda audio su PC riusciva a eguagliarlo. Consiglio vivamente questo software agli appassionati di Karaoke su PC.

Gringo

Funziona come il Yamaha XG50 / XG100 ?

AMIGA

Parliamo del software commerciale YAMAHA XG SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50 4.x di 10 anni fa ?

Sul sito dell'autore di VirtualMIDISynth è riportato:

If you are a MIDI/karaoke fan like me, you know that MIDI play quality on Windows systems was not really good out of the box. The bundled "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" MIDI Out device is just... ehm... simple: poor samples, mono sound, no effects (reverb, chorus) support.

On 32bits systems some better alternatives exist, like the well-known YAMAHA XG SoftSynthetizer S-YXG50 and Cakewalk-sfz+ (both unsupported now).

Upgrading to an x64 system was a pain for me: S-YXG50 doesn't work at all, Cakewalk-sfz+ was unusable.

One day Ian Luck (un4seen) added to his BASSMidi library a great feature: the possibility to render a live MIDI stream, including SysEx messages. I quickly realized that, if only I could intercept that MIDI stream and drive it through Ian's library, well, we would have got a great MIDI Synth.

The challenge was to create a good quality synth and keep the end user away from complicated virtual MIDI chains (ever tried VanBasco -> MIDI Yoke/LoopBe1 -> SynthFont chain ?).

User only needs a new virtual MIDI Out device, select it as output on his preferred player settings and... start playing, nothing more.

Here we are, VirtualMIDISynth is the answer: an user mode multimedia x86/x64 driver that works on XP / Vista / 7 (both x86 and x64), implemented as a MIDI Out virtual device.