winmm/midi tests and VMware

[Paul Vriens]

On 03/02/2010 08:54 PM, Paul Vriens wrote:
> On 03/02/2010 08:47 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
>> Paul Vriens wrote:
>>> I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with
>>> or without waveset files), to no avail.
>>
>> I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely
>> unrelated. The Creative soft-synth included with the drivers using the
>> wave sets works fine.
>>
>> It's the external midi stuff that hangs. This is likely because VMware's
>> MPU-401 emulation is non-existent. (Normally I understand this would go
>> to the wide jack on your soundcard.)
>>
>> To solve the problem you have to remove the MPU device. Open
>> inf\wdma_ens.inf in the Windows directory and remove all lines and
>> sections with UART in them. When using drivers from Creative, you need
>> to extract them manually first and do the same thing with the included
>> inf file (in addition to the one above for some reason!).
>>
>> This will prevent the MPU-401 device from installing. You should have
>> just the soft-syths which should not cause any programs to hang.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julius
>
> Hi Julius,
>
> Great!! This is exactly the behavior I was seeing. As said using the
> external midi also hangs Microsoft Media Player.
>
> I will give your suggestions a try. I will also check how it influences
> the other sound related tests.
>
> I didn't want to go the easy road by uninstalling/disabling sound
> altogether and this certainly sound good.
>

Works fine on my XP box. I'll try NT4 and W2K tomorrow.

Great solution btw!!

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Cheers,

Paul.