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If you want Midi to render consistently across devices, you are “Significantly Out of Luck.” The audio sounds like it sounds because Microsoft Licensed Roland’

If you want Midi to render consistently across devices, you are “Significantly Out of Luck.” The audio sounds like it sounds because Microsoft Licensed Roland’s GS Wavetable. Without that you lose timbral information.

Kwpolska 1y ago
That’s not the Microsoft/Roland sound.
- brudgers 1y ago
  Canyon.mid on my windows computer is.
  - Kwpolska 1y ago
    It sounds noticeably different in Windows Media Player. The video is probably using a Yamaha OPL chip, as found in Sound Blaster cards.
    - brudgers 1y ago
      The video is using audio because of variable Midi rendering. And any OPL is almost certainly emulated, not an actual chip.
- nancyminusone 1y ago
  Yeah, this sounds like an OPL2 to me
alexjplant 1y ago
I remember being _very_ frustrated as a child that the music in "Hover!" sounded significantly different when we upgraded from our 486 to a Pentium II machine. The Sound Blaster gave the music a very distinct quality that was lacking in the software MIDI synthesizer.