Re: [hatari-devel] built-in midi emulation in Hatari using mt32emu ?

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 20/09/2023 à 11:24, Paweł Góralski a écrit :
> Hi, i think that mt32 is nice, but it emulates specific pre GM hardware. 
> So it would be cool to add support to GM too. But this mt32 emu will not 
> provide. At least it would be good start. Some games sound better on 
> mt32, some other on gm.
>
> Regards,
> Pawel

Hi

I'm not a midi specialist, but on wikipedia it says that GM was 
published in 1991, so I don't think many games expect to be played with 
GM devices, as most sierra games for example were released before that 
date ?

> Dnia 20 września 2023 10:58:47 CEST, "Nicolas Pomarède" 
> <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał/a:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Toni pointed me to https://github.com/munt/munt
>     <https://github.com/munt/munt> for which he added support into
>     WinUAE using 'mt32emu'
>
>     This will emulate some midi devices (Roland) to get built in sound
>     in WinUAE without using an external MIDI emulator, which can be
>     handy for Sierra games for examples.
>
>     Is that something that we could consider for Hatari ? This would
>     give a default out of the box midi emulation for games that can use
>     it, without the need to setup a complete midi chain on the PC/mac.
>
>     Then user could still have the option to route midi events to an
>     external file/port as we do today ?
>
>     note : this might be after hatari 2.5 is released, not sure someone
>     can work on this before
>
>     Nicolas