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  2. Roland Sound Canvas - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth, included in instances of DirectX as an integral part of DirectMusic, and on Microsoft Windows since Windows 98, incorporates sounds from the Sound Canvas series licensed by Microsoft from Roland in 1996. [33] A four-megabyte file, titled "GM.DLS", contains the sample set in DLS format.

  3. DirectMusic - Wikipedia

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    On computers with sound card which lack 'wavetable' sample-based synthesis, DirectSound's Software Synthesizer ensures that message-based music such as MIDI files and DirectMusic segments sound identical on all hardware configurations rather than playing differently on different computers with different sound cards. An application can also play ...

  4. Roland GS - Wikipedia

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    Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard [1] [2] or General Sound, [1] is a MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and bytes sequences, thus defining instrument tones, controllers for sound effects, etc.

  5. VDMSound - Wikipedia

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    VDMSound allows the user to provide custom mappings for MIDI instruments as well as for joystick buttons and axes. MIDI mappings are particularly useful when the type of MIDI device supported by a game (e.g. MT-32) is different from the type of hardware or software device actually present on the system (e.g. Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth.) [7]

  6. Windows 98 - Wikipedia

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    A Microsoft GS Wavetable Synthesizer licensed from Roland shipped with Windows 98 for WDM audio drivers. Windows 98 supports digital playback of audio CDs , and the Second Edition improves WDM audio support by adding DirectSound hardware mixing and DirectSound 3D hardware abstraction, DirectMusic kernel support, KMixer sample-rate conversion ...

  7. Wavetable synthesis - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990s at the latest, several influential sample-based synthesis products were marketed under the trade names similar to "wavetable synthesis" (including Gravis Ultrasound wavetable card, Creative Wave Blaster wavetable daughterboard, and Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth), and these confusions have further affected industry standards ...

  8. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Agent no longer supports multiple languages per edition of Windows. The Agent language will always be the same as the language of the Windows edition. [128] Due to Microsoft Agent using SAPI 5 for Agent characters instead of SAPI 4, pitch and speed settings of the characters are broken/ignored unless new SAPI 5 compatible XML tags are ...

  9. List of sound chips - Wikipedia

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    Original Windows Sound System card by Microsoft, Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 and Elite cards Digital-to-analog codec chip, 2-channel stereo input/output [93] ARM Ltd. VIDC20: 1994 8 16 44,100 Risc PC computer Atari: Jerry 1993 16 16 44,100 Atari Jaguar console CMOS chip, also supports pulse-width modulation (PWM) and single-cycle wavetable-lookup ...