And I'm quite certain you've also found these sites somewhat limited, but this does not mean at all that the sites above are not good places to start for info. I'm sure you've been to DLS Adventures and maybe DLS Fury too, two of the first sites to offer general purpose, meaning used for playing normal MIDI files, DLS files. Miles Sound Tools includes a software synthesizer that can use a DLS bank for MIDI playback even if you don't have a DLS capable sound card! Introduction The link on this page to a DLS bank is broken. Here is a link to a page I accidently found concerning DLS. I am considering re-releasing Audible, but only for test purposes in order to identify any bad patches I may have missed. Instead I have been testing the sample set to improve its quality, replacing bad patches with known good patches from gm.dls. I am no longer looking for patches for Audible. You will have to provide the GUS patches referenced in the cfg files as well as make the necessary changes to match your directory structure. I created these files for myself in order to facilitate switching between SoundFonts as well as to account for ROM references. To help you get started with using SoundFonts with TiMidity++, I have uploaded some cfg and bat files for you to download. The level of quality and configurability is just amazing, and it takes up less than 10% CPU using customized options, so it's perfect for playing background music. It is an excellent open-source software wavetable synthesizer and is continually being improved. But the primary reason for abandoning this DLS page is TiMidity++' ability to use use SoundFonts for MIDI playback. SB16's have excellent driver support across almost all PC operating systems, and Linux will treat the daughtercard as an external MIDI module so I'll be able to play mids under Linux. In the future, I will have a SB16 pnp with a wavetable daughtercard. One of the reasons for this is I haven't found a PCI sound card that is friendly to DOS. I believe that this will be the final update to this web page. Additionally, I give permission for anyone interested to: either write an update to this page (which I will link to directly at the top of this page), or to otherwise use the information contained in it verbatim or otherwise, as long as credit is given to me for the appropriate information. However, I am willing to post updated links on this page to any DLS related websites in the section below. Please forgive me if I have not responded, or do not respond, to your inquiries. I have only kept this up as a reference for other people. However, this is not an up-to-date page, nor has any effort to make it current been made, as I lost interest in anything MIDI a few years ago. Latest: I want to thank everyone who has visited this page, and e-mailed me with questions, etc.
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