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I'm curious what samples it's using for playback. Is it just using whatever the host OS offers or does it have its own internal samples? I searched on the main
by mrandish 11mo ago
I'm curious what samples it's using for playback. Is it just using whatever the host OS offers or does it have its own internal samples? I searched on the main page, About and FAQ for the term "Samples" and didn't see any info.
As someone into both music production and retro gaming, my experience of MIDI is that the instrument types are standard but the fidelity and quality of the music varies depending on the samples used. While low-end 90s sound cards had small sample ROMs and better cards had larger sample sets (2 or more MB). More recently there are even larger, very high quality MIDI sample sets which are open source. Also, is General MIDI 2 supported? How about extensions like Roland GS and Yamaha XG?
- blaiz2025 11mo agoCynthia uses whatever midi playback device you have on offer. By default that's "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" on Windows, which is horrible to say the least. But if you install a 3rd party midi driver app like VirtualMIDISynth or OmniMIDI (see my other comment in this thread about soundfonts) you can upgrade sound playback to high quality using soundfonts (.sf2). The app can also switch between up to 10 midi devices in realtime, or use them all simultaneously for playback - see main GUI, bottom right, Playback Device, 1 to 10 or "A" for all. App supports General Midi 1 (GM1) over 16 channels in playback formats 0 and 1, but not 2. It does not support General Midi 2 (GM2) e.g. 32 channels, and does not support "system exclusive messages".