Passport MIDI AWE64 synthesizer

During the Windows 95/98 age, there lived a MIDI synthesizer. It was created by the most esteemed Creative music corps, was it the SoundBlaster? Nope. Was it the SoundBlaster 16? Nope. Was it the SoundBlaster Live {which didn't even exist back then}? Certainly not, it was a new breed of MIDI wavetables, it was The Advanced Wave Effects Synthesizer with 64 channels! {AWE64}. Even to this day, this ancient artifact of a MIDI card remains one of the greatest synthesizers ever created in a nerd dungeon {Basement} of yonder Creative Corp. I swear, you'll think its done Live. {Of course, thats what the SoundBlaster Live is for but screw that...}

Just in case you are wondering, no emulators or soundfonts were used for this video. I originally recorded this using the default shitty sound recording tool. Yeah, that's right, I actually recorded this ON my Windows 95. Morale value right there.

Download Link is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?62xpfvh2nla7fac

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[ReneeJoel]

Do you happen to have the actual .mid or .midi file, I have been looking for it for ages but I can't seem to find it, thanks.

[AndrosynthNuclear]

@ReneeJoel Unfortunately no. This wav file I used was recorded on my Windows 95 and then burned onto a CD years ago. My Window 95's CD burner had stopped working awhile after I made the CD, so moving the MIDI file over to my newer computer would be impossible, sadly.

[yTubeBlowsBigBalls]

When replacing "gm.dsl", make sure that the file isn't write-protected. Because in Windows 7, when you try to delete it (it's 3.3 mb) it magically comes back or overwrites your new ".dsl" file. You need to replace it using Windows Recovery Console or use some other trick. It's all explained in that link I sent a few posts ago.

Good luck, and enjoy wonderful MIDI music :D!

[AndrosynthNuclear]

@yTubeBlowsBigBalls Ty for the information! You wouldn't happen to know any kind of soundfont that emulates the original 8bit soundblaster would you?

[NexXxus86]

AWE64 sounds the same as Microsoft GS Synthesizer.

[BigPalookaalt]

I wish there was someway to emulate this on modern systems

[TheAGKMisadventures]

It sounds awesome !

[ReneeJoel]

@AndrosynthNuclear I actually found it somewhere, if you want it I can PM you a download link.

[shnunk1]

This brings back memories of fiddling around on Dad's 500MHz IBM.

[ab50721]

There is no way the Gravis Ultrasound beats the AWE line... for its time, the AWE line sounded very close to real instruments. Even though Gravis had an impressive sound, it still sounded fake.

[Luciferminusone]

@AndrosynthNuclear Thanks for clarifying that. :)

[AndrosynthNuclear]

@Luciferminusone You can't just drag a MIDI file into DOSBox and expect it to know what to do with a MIDI file :P. You have to have a DOS based media player running in DosBox first, and then you would load the MIDI file from there.