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Posted: 19th Nov 2004 01:33
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Does anyone know if there's a .dll or anything that will let me use a soundfont file to override the sound card's normal midi instruments?

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I don't think so. Since only Creative (and very few other) soundcards have hardware support for soundcards, it's got a rather limited audience.
Microsofts DirectMusic has something similar. It's software based and therefore uses up quite a few resources. The concept is rather nice, though.

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Does any of the new stuff in the enhancement pack help? I'm not very experienced with soundcards, but there's some sound stuff in the pack:

http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?f=enhancementpack_commands

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Quote: "Since only Creative (and very few other) soundcards have hardware support for soundcards, it's got a rather limited audience."

Unless you're using onboard audio, does anyone here not have a creative sound card? i use live platinum and audigy2 platinum myself. oh, and the sb16 in my 98se box.

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The thing I'm concerned about is the fact that midis sound different from computer to computer. I know that there are better formats to use in that case, but there's going to be a LOT of music in the project I'm working on, and I don't want the program to take up a hundred megabytes or anything. I was just looking for a way that I could force a set of midi instruments. I know it's possible, because I've seen a few (non-DB) games that have done it.

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Ah, try recording the MIDI to an MP3 and use that.

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Well, the only problem there is that the space is vastly increased if I do so. The midi count so far is 23, and rising; it'll probably be around 40+ before it's done. The game's download size would be increased by probably between 50-80mb if I used mp3s. That's why I'm looking for some sort of alternative.

My other choice would be to convert the midis over to a tracker format like .it, .mod, .s3m or .xm, but I don't know if DBPro accepts them. I'm also not thrilled with the way programs attempt to convert midis over, as they generally do an awful job of it.

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dosn't DBP allow .ogg files now?

I'm not sure it might be something else. OGG files are smaller than mp3 but higher quality too.
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They're occasionally smaller. I tried converting some mp3s over to oggs, but some actually ended up being bigger for some reason.

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