![]() ![]() This has worked fine for me under Vista, but under Windows 8.1 all I got was silence again. Windows Media Player (WMP) produced total silence and my alternative was a program called Midiplay by Chris Hills (see I am running under Windows 8.1 and merely wanted to play midi files from the internet. I don't know if this will help, but I can offer the following information: Please ! How do I get Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth back onto my machine so I can get on with some work ? Have MS forgotten that there are many users who actually no how to use windows, who don't need the new limitations, and would rather you don't fix what isn't broken ? I've just come back to finish an album after spending nearly two months down trying to wrestle 8.1 into usability, and Cubase reports on each song that Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth is missing - I'm completey screwed, weeks of work down the drainīecause I stupidly thought 8.1 might fix all the short coming of 8 - it's been a nightmare. comes out it causes hours of down time as we have to wrestle, tweak, and hack the new O.S. Why make things more and more difficult for us with each new O.S. Windows is used on millions of music workstations in studios worldwide. ![]() Why has the ability to choose a different hardware or software MIDI synthesizer other than the default Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth been removed ? If I try to play back any recorded MIDI files, they only play on Windows Media and not on the keyboard. In the 'Red Dot Forever' program, I can record MIDI piano to the computer and play it back as long as I am in the program. Once the installation process is completed, you will have to setting your music software to use the new interface VirtualMIDISynth.Why are there some limitations when it comes to MIDI in Windows 8 ? A Yahama YDP-223 piano is connected to a Lenovo computer on Windows 10 with a Yamaha MIDI-USB cable. I used the FluidR3_GM, downloadable from HERE Downloading and configuring into VirtualMIDISynth a SoundFont (the ‘musical instruments’ that the driver will use for music playback).The installation is very simple and consists of two steps: Load all of your soundfonts into list and enable/disable them at your will.Load up to 30 SoundFonts and chain them.Virtually unlimited polyphony (limited only by CPU) The ability to choose a different hardware or software MIDI synthesizer other than the default Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth has been removed from the user.Efficient RAM usage (allows using large SoundFonts, > 1GByte).Clean installer, won’t affect other MIDI devices.No DLL cluttering, everything is self contained in System32/SysWOW64 subfolder.MIDI mixer to set track mute/volume, accessible through systray icon while playing.Directly accessible as MIDI Out device, no need for virtual MIDI cables (like MIDI Yoke, LoopBe1).User mode multimedia driver, no reboots, no BSOD.These will be listed in the MIDI Output Driver box near the center.Most systems will have at least the Microsoft MIDI Mapper and the Microsoft GS. You probably have a number of midi outputs available. It’s a userspace driver, with the possibility of loading different sound fonts. If you have an external midi instrument, such as a keyboard, you should see that listed in the MIDI Input driver box to the upper left of the dialog. The solution is quite simple: install a third-party virtual midi driver. I have not yet found references, but it would seem that the wavetable is one the features that have been removed/changed in this latest Windows upgrade. After upgrading to Windows 10, I discovered that the softwares I use to write music ( Musescore, for example), are no longer able to carry out the reproduction of the music scores using the GS Wavetable Windows virtual midi interface, that allows software to play midi sequences also without a dedicated hardware. ![]()
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