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

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 20.9.2023 12.32, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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 ?

While some of the Atari midi using games and software is from before 
that time, all are not, and *especially* not the files they can play.

Idea is still interesting though.

Before that, I think Hatari's MIDI as MIDI-device vs. serial-device 
selection should be made into run-time, not build time one.


	- Eero

> > 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