XG Music Series: Passport Designs - Passport Please

This is a tune that came shipped with Windows 95, 98 and 2000 to demonstrate their multimedia ability. I remade it with some MU100 sounds and added some notes here and there. Made it mostly for the nostalgic value and to compare with the original that can be found on Youtube.

Music: Passport Designs - Passport Please
MIDI file sequence: Passport Designs, Inc. (XG version by me)
Specialities: XG delay effect, special MU100 sounds
Player: vanBasco Karaoke Player
Synthesizer: Yamaha SW1000XG in XG mode

XG format was devised in 1996 by Yamaha to expand on existing General MIDI standard which was quite limiting. The SW1000XG was introduced in 1998 basically as a MU100 tone generator in PCI card format. At that time it was the most powerful musician's sound card available.

Occasional cracks are due to buggy Windows XP driver, this can't be helped. Clipping is a result of weird volume behaviour - when master volume is set to more than 50% louder notes tend to clip especially if more than one play at once. This can only be helped by setting the volume to 50% or less, sometimes even more is possible if the notes are soft enough. Why is this so I haven't figured out.

Why vanBasco Karaoke Player? Simply because it neatly shows all the notes that are being played at once.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• yamaha
• xg
• midi
• sw1000xg
• passport
• passport.mid

[Mtaalas]

Holy... totally great stuff. I suddenly felt so much nostalgia! Thanks for this one :)

I own a XG60 ISA card. I bought it a while ago from friend because it had so nice retro sounds that I wished to add it to my studio gear.