Anybody use a Roland Daughterboard on Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard

[sandbasser]

I'm wondering if any of you geniuses could make some suggestions on how to get a Roland Sound Canvas Daughterboard midi synth to work on the "waveblaster" header of my new Santa Cruz (by Turtle Beach). I had the DB working on an old ISA SoundBlaster 16. The Roland website (www.rolandus.com) is no help. And, the info on Voyetra/Turtle Beach is kinda confusing.

The symptoms are that with the midi player there is no sound from synth. Everything else on the card seems to work a-ok.

Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can render.

- Ray Reese

 

[sandbasser]

Anyone???

 

[xgsound]

I see two areas to check first

1. Go to control panel / multimedia / midi. There check the synth device to use. It should be something like " midi for external synth" or "external 401" (this globally changes between internal synth and wavetable header.

2. Go to volume control / options / properties. There check for synth, aux, video, or 401 external. Check them all. The volume slider (and mute ) for each will appear.
Then you can select a midi, play it, and unmute each control to see which controls it.

This gives you something to work with.
Have you used Wingroov or Megamid ?

xgsound

 

[bluemax]

Well done! XGsound beat me to it, but what he told you is the best advice.
Ive used the SCDB10 and 15 boards on the Santa Cruz (for the few days I had one) and it worked very well! far better than the internal synth... yecch!
Too bad not many people take MIDI seriously anymore... I remember the salad days of the MT-32 and early Sound Canvas/GM.
The ever-changing soundtrack to "Tie Fighter" was waaaaay cooler than just canned CD audio tracks.

 

[sandbasser]

xgsound & bluemax...

Thanks for the suggestions; I'll give them a try tonight.

BTW, what are wingroov and megamid? (I'll do a 'google search' later today.)

Thanks again. - Ray Reese

 

[xgsound]

Both are midi players

Megamid is a freeware player that gives a visual display of all notes and instruments in a midi (pitch blend and gs or xg info too) . It also allows you to change any instrument while listening or mute selected tracks or change which synth to use.

Wingroove is a shareware ($10 or $20 after 30 days) player and has a software wavetable synth that is very good but doesn't have all instruments. You can select among it's software synth, or your card's internal synth, or the wavetable header. If you use Wingroov's synth you can change instruments or make a .wav file .

Basically they are tools to play around with the instruments in a midi to see how you like it best before you apply changes.

xg sound