Scala gsplay Sblive

well according to Creative (makers of Sblive) the Sb card does not
support DOS midi OUT . I am pretty sure I was doinge verything correctly
-unless Manuel can tell me what I was doing wrong= as Creative has been
wrong about their products before. I admit I was a little peeved that i
had a nice New soundcard that was preventing me from microtuning my
Tx81zS. so i resorted to the old tried and true Cakewalk--D burgess was
suggesting windows media player but that does not allow a tempo change
it merely plays the file-again I am pretty sure you cannot change the
tempo on the WMP nevertheless I took the resultant 17 limit Just scale
and dropped it into Cakewalk and brought the tempo way down to like 20
bpm at half speed and the babies took the Dump so to speak. Just thought
I would post this out there for any one else trying to use Scala with
the newer Sb cards. I am not sure but they use this Sb16 emulation for
DOS games etc where I guess most folks want the bitchin 3d audio as
they slay demons and what not, but it seems to prevent sending messages
out thru the port while in Dos.

Thanks to Darren Burgess of SEJIS for his continuing support and overall
good vibes.

ciao
Shree Swifty

> well according to Creative (makers of Sblive) the Sb card does not
> support DOS midi OUT . I am pretty sure I was doing everything correctly
> -unless Manuel can tell me what I was doing wrong= as Creative has been
> wrong about their products before. I admit I was a little peeved that i
> had a nice New soundcard that was preventing me from microtuning my
> Tx81zS.

I am not familiar with this soundcard, if it doesn't support DOS MIDI out
then that's unfortunate. To remedy this you can indeed use another
MIDI file player, one that runs under Windows. It needn't be the
Microsoft one. If you do an Altavista search on "midi player" you'll
see several. The nice option of gsplay to slow it down which you
need for the TX81Z to prevent an overrun may be harder to find in the
players nowadays. The TX81Z is also pretty old.
It's no problem to call another player from Scala. The SEND command
looks for the script file send.cmd and executes it. You can manually
edit it and substitute gsplay with another player in the SPAWN
command you see there. It's best to write the full path name and don't
forget the quotes if there's a directory with spaces in the name.
How and if the player accepts the input file name (xxx.mid) from the
command line varies from program to program. If it's not in help file
somewhere it remains a matter of experimentation.

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl