However, with my huge lack of MIDI knowledge, I'm about to resort to DOS games only. I cannot use the MIDI settings in any VM, and the reason I'm guessing is because the Sound Blaster 16 is not MIDI compatible without some kind of daughter-board or other card.Īs you can see, I've performed many unsuccessful combinations with this flunky operating system on three different VMs: VBox, QEMU, and VPC 2004. The FM synthesis will only successfully play in VPC 2004, not VirtualBox. There are only settings for FM synthesis (I believe) which, by the way, sound horrible, and a MIDI setting. When I use the Sound Blaster 16 drivers, there are no patch maps or key maps available. I cannot put any more PCI cards on my motherboard, and there are no ISA slots. I will make it clear that I am not paying for any cards for the host computer. 8-bit does sound better on my speakers but I can hear silent noise on my headphones. However, I desire 16-bit audio quality coming from my headset which the 1.5 driver does not supply. In QEMU, I have the MT32 and LAPC-1 patch maps when the AdLib and the Sound Blaster 1.5 drivers are installed. All other VMs I've used (I haven't used VM Ware) have Sound Blaster 16 (some have PnP). The one thing about this VM is that it has a Yamaha OPL2 card which is missing from VirtualBox. I'm pretty sure users of VirtualBox have heard about QEMU.

I am going to use Windows 3.1 because I want to set up a classic video game OS and I want all of the sound configurations to work. I have searched the forums and have found some threads regarding Windows 3.1 but only a few about sound and even fewer about MIDI.

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