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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: VAB file on the Yaroze boot CD
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 03:48:47 -0500
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I was playing around with the sound, and it seems to me that the STD0.VB
file is not "General MIDI" compatible.  I wrote a little program to let
me play notes from the various sounds, and they do not match up with the
sounds that are supposed to be in a GM device.

I've also use the andplay.bat utility to play some MIDI files that sound
pretty good on my PC, but on the Yaroze, they sound....  Wierd.

Would it be possible, if another Boot CD were to ever be produced, to
put a GM compatible sound source on there?

The reason is that there are alot of GM-compatible MIDI files floating
around and it would be so nice and easy to just plop a few into a game,
to break up the monotony of "gogo" and "musi".  :-)

Until then, are there any musicians who would be willing to create a GM
compatible VAB file?

EdF