MIDI devices

[Blitz Lunar]

Just curious to know what midi devices you guys are using or have available to you these days. Anyone got any less well-known ones, either sound-card based or software? If so, recordings? I just made a list of mine, realising I still have rather a lot, regardless of it being 2008 and not 1998 o_O...

integrated:
Yamaha SYXG50
WinGroove
Roland VSC-88
Creative SB Audigy Synth A/B (+soundfonts)
Creative SB Audigy Sw Synth / Emulated Ensoniq chip (2MB, 4MB and 8MB .ECW banks)
Microsoft GM/GS Wavetable

stand-alone:
Gashisoft GXSCC
HTSFMS 070a + HTSFMS 096
Yamaha MidRadio Player

external:
Yamaha MU100
Casio CTK-631

There was another one I had called JetMIDI a few years ago too, but I uninstalled it. Oh, and the SYXG100...

[BlackJackRatso]

hmm lets see I have a desktop and a laptop so I have:

Microsoft GM/GS Wavetable
Creative Soundblaster LIVE! 24-bit (soundfonts)
EDIROL VSC

At times I have my Grandma's Roland E-300 Keyboard

Program wise I have Cakewalk Music Creator 2, Anvil and so on

From there I just have about every free VSTi there is along with a couple GB library of soundfonts.

Since I'm one of the non sequencers around here I can't really say that I put a whole lot of money into it,

[Jace]

I've had an SC-88 a few years ago but It doesn't work anymore. Besides MSGS And XG, there's nothing else.

I DO have a much older version of SYXG50 though that came bundled with my Windows 98 almsot a decade ago. I think it's version 2, compared to the latest one, which is 4.

Oh, there's of course GXSCC and fmmidi

[Sonic SBL]

Synths:
Creative SB Audigy series
MSGS

Sequencing:
Anvil Studio 2008.09.04 with the following accessories:
Copy-Me
Music Drills
MIDI Manager
Multi Audio 1/8
Multi-View
Pro-Mix
Performance Toolpack 1

External:
Edirol PCR-M1 keyboard

Other:
VanBasco's Karaoke Player
Gashisoft GXSCC

[X]

Output:
Microsoft GM/GS Wavetable SW Synth
Yamaha XG SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50
Gravis Ultrasound (unfortunately emulation dependent for me now)

Other Programs:
Gashisoft GXSCC
SynthFont


PS Though the Gravis is unfortunately hardware specific, I can no longer run it but through specific (and rather crude) hardware emulation. Still, I suppose it counts for something.
¯\(º_o)/¯

[Blitz Lunar]

erm, i meant midi devices, not midi players/sequencers it only makes sense to mention those if they have a midi device built-in like GXSCC. i'm also not including VSTis in this. hope that's clear.

I've had an SC-88 a few years ago but It doesn't work anymore

darn, that sucks. once upon a time i really wanted an SC-8820 (or SK-500, the SC8820 with keys). they're nice. what happened to your module?

[X]

Ah, I guess I should fix my post then (I really only listed those because other people had been doing so). Come to think of it, I have one more playback device but it is unfortunately a hardware-dependant one (unless I'm playing stuff back through DosBOX or something, that is). I suppose it wouldn't hurt to add though.

[nZero]

All of my music junk is back in the states. Right now I've just got the MSGS synth and the Yamaha S-YXG50 loaded on my laptop.

[Kurtis]

Internal:
Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
SB Audigy Synths A & B (soundfonts)

External:
Yamaha DGX-200 Portable Grand series keyboard, XGLite

Standalone:
Gashisoft GXSCC
htsfms 0.96
foobar2000 emulated FM synth

And I know Lunar said no VSTs, but oh well: foobar2000 using MidRadio Player's integrated synth ripped in VSC form, similar to the synth in the DGX-200

I used to have the S-YXG50 and VSC installed when I had XP and MIDI Yoke installed when I was using Vista x86, but I've since switched to Vista x64. Since there's no 64-bit version of MIDI Yoke, I can't use it anymore to route data from my synth to htsfms or SAVIHost.

In Linux, I primarily use TiMidity++ for system MIDI playback, using a soundfont instead of the commonly used freepats library.

Also, nZ: No VSC? Figured you'd at least have that on your laptop since you have your GS equipment at home in the States.

[Blitz Lunar]

foobar2000 has an FM synth built in, eh? i'll have to try that.

[Mark]

I've literally just started using Reason 3 for everything, as I can get no latency and not lag up cpu memory. (Reason doesn't use gigantic samples)

MIDI software synths? I still only have the SW synth... Same drums as ever. ;/ I really wish there was something that would work on Vista 64-bit...

[Kurtis]

No, foobar doesn't by default, but the foobar MIDI plugin uses its own synth unless you supply a VSTi. Actually, the newest version doesn't even let you use a VSTi - FM only.

[CBlockDis]

A Device is hardware, a driver is what you all are listing. SB Audigy is a device, and the synth drivers for it are what you listed, just the same as MSGS being a driver. They aren't devices, so don't get them mixed up.

[Rocco]

A Device is hardware, a driver is what you all are listing. SB Audigy is a device, and the synth drivers for it are what you listed, just the same as MSGS being a driver. They aren't devices, so don't get them mixed up.

I guess they call them "device drivers" for a reason. Although when talking about home computer-based setups rather than studio setups that usually ONLY have external synths or software sample libraries, calling a softsynth a "device" seems fairly harmless. It functions as a device, for all intents and purposes.

My Devices:
On-board sound card (w00t mediocrity!)
A Radioshack MD-1121 keyboard/synth

My not Devices:
Yamaha XG softsynth
MSGS softsynth
SFZ (Soundfont VST)
Gashisoft GXSCC
HTSFMS 070a + HTSFMS 096
Yamaha MidRadio Player

Sample Libraries
2.4 GB of sound fonts
EWQL Colossus
EWQL Symphonic Orchestra (gold)

The EastWest stuff was acquired acquired completely legitimately

[budz888]

Output:
Microsoft GM/GS Wavetable SW Synth
Yamaha XG SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50
Gravis Ultrasound (unfortunately emulation dependent for me now)

Other Programs:
Gashisoft GXSCC
SynthFont


PS Though the Gravis is unfortunately hardware specific, I can no longer run it but through specific (and rather crude) hardware emulation. Still, I suppose it counts for something.
¯\(º_o)/¯

okie thanks anyway...for sharing the Microsoft GM/GS Wavetable SW Synth ..


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