On 14/11/2011 05:10 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPlp3Nfjok
>
>> That is very, very smooth. Really atmospheric too. And with the little
>> background details, this one almost sounds professional-quality.
>
>    Incidentally, that's the only song I made 100% with a midi keyboard,

>    So it's basically an improv.

That's even more impressive.

If I get time tonight, I'll post a couple of the things *I* improvised. 
Sadly, they don't compare at all...

>> I'm surprised you managed to get such impressive sound quality from a
>> MIDI file. Usually that means using the default software renderer, which
>> (depending on which version of Windows you have) sounds abysmal. I've
>> heard toy pianos that sound better than that thing!
>
>    Well, I used a SoundBlaster AWE32 with a partially custom soundfont as
> my soundcard back then. Not a pro-quality soundcard, but good enough for
> my purposes. (The card supports recording to a raw WAV file the raw PCM
> data that the soundcard produces, so there isn't any need to make a
> quality-losing useless digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion.)
>
>    Curiously, the only PC hardware that I have that has gone backwards in
> quality is precisely in the sound department. My current PC is unable to
> produce these sounds from the midi files on hardware (because I can't put
> the AWE32 in this PC, as it has no ISA port.)
>
>    Of course via software it would be possible to produce even better-quality
> sounds.

Now, see, I'm a little lost here. I thought a soundcard is just a thing 
that converts digital audio into analogue audio...

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