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I tried using Sound Recorder (sndrec32.exe) to record the Descent midis. Interestingly, if you muck around with it enough, you CAN get it to record to any length you wish, at CD quality, but if it exceeds a certain size, it will falsely report you're out of disk space and refuse to save the file. So... where can I get some software that will record from the AWE64 MIDI output straight to a WAV or MP3 or something?

Any sourceforgers out there know?

edit - Nevermind. This will probably work - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

woops.

you can also play the midis in winamp and set the output plugin \"nullsoft diskwriter\" active. you can configure it to write any format you like.

Except, darn it, the system in question is a PII 350. Winamp has too high system requirements (PIII 500).

Just because it says the system requirements are too high doesn't mean it wont still work. Windows XP can be installed on a pentium 90...

I considered that and tried Winamp anyways. Winamp works!

But - there IS a difference in MIDI playback from in-game, using the original HMP OR MID files (I didn't know Winamp could play HMP directly!). In Descent 1's GAME13.HMP/GAME13.MID, there is a high-hat hit that starts around halfway through the song. In-game, it sounds proper; 1 hit and the note is over. It's being erroneously repeated, producing an unpleasantly lengthened note, during playback out-of-game, using either the HMP or the MID, in Winamp or Windows Media Player.

Does anyone have any ideas on that one?

-edit Same thing happens with Descent 2. The DOS games play the high-hats correctly; when done through Windows, the high-hats are being echoed or something too much.

There may not be a fix to this one

Make sure you're using no soundfont in both cases. Also, make sure that the chorus and reverb settings aren't all messed up in the Windows drivers' settings. I can't remember how to check, but it'll be in some Creative program.

Check around the Winamp preferences/plug-ins/input/Nullsoft MIDI player and make sure it isn't doing anything it shouldn't be.

Did both; no soundfonts are loaded and the creative stereo enhancement isn't on. Winamp is doing what it should - both Windows Media Player and Winamp do the exact same thing.