A discussion on restoring EQ's music once and for all

[Burrito]

Originally Posted by atomk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hey guys. I was sick of hearing the crap music Windows 7 spits out. After reading this thread I dug out an old Audigy card and after a bunch of tinkering I got it to work again. I installed XP on an empty partition and got the Audigy drivers and software working and downloaded a couple soundfonts. I posted a video on youtube with the results.

Let me know what ya think.

My god what a differance. I don't think my sound is as bad as the final windows 7 clip. I'm hoping cowjosh's solution works. Going to try it the second I get home.

Edit: Seems like just using one of the AWE64 soundfonts has everything working. Hurray!

[atomk]

Originally Posted by Burrito [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My god what a differance. I don't think my sound is as bad as the final windows 7 clip. I'm hoping cowjosh's solution works. Going to try it the second I get home.

Edit: Seems like just using one of the AWE64 soundfonts has everything working. Hurray!

I got as far in this thread to where they were talking about hexediting files to get 7 to use a different soundfont. I messed a lot with MIDI in highschool (my god over 12 years ago) [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] and knew how much easier/better it was pre-Vista. I've bought soundcards just to get better MIDI from DOS games. Some posts I read in other forums from professional musicians I read when 7 was released regarding MIDI support made it sound like even a solution like cowjosh's wasn't possible. Its excellent Microsoft allows us to use a different software solution. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just don't understand why Microsoft has regressed audio in Windows in such a way. Even Apple's Garageband is a MIDI sequencer as much as it is a recording audio tracker. I'm going to through my Soundblaster 16 in next and see what happens. Even though I know the music is going to be flat (the Audigy did indeed do chorus and reverb like someone else was talking about above about the AWE cards) I wouldn't be surprised if its better than Microsoft's wavetable.

[Zliz]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=81207

This solution works for me. Enjoying kickass music in EQ (Live, but should make no difference) right now at the Qeynos docks.