BVE4 Beta Destoys my midi sounds

[Ron Booker]

Hi, I really enjoy BVE and have had it on my computer for some time. I have NetFramework installed on my computer. I have no trouble installing BVE Beta 4. The problem is, when I do install BVE4, my midi sounds in other programs stop functioning. Is this a common problem with NETFramework programs and if so, is there a solution? I have no problems with MP3's and Wav files. Just Midi sounds are not working. For instance when trying to play a midi with WinAmp, it reads the midi file but no sound is coming through. This is also true with all other midi players that I have tried.

Running WindowsXP Home Edition
Soundblaster Live Value
Service Pack 2

The only way I've been able to correct the problem is to uninstall BVE4 and Soundblaster Live Value and then reinstall Soundblaster Live. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Sorry about posting this problem in this forum, but it seems that BVE4 Beta is the culprit in my situation.

[call2]

RE: BVE4 Beta Destoys my midi sounds

In Windows if you go into System Information and click on the Tools tab the dropdown box will have DirectX Diagnostic Tool in the menu. If you run that does it show that you have any problems with any type of music sound files?

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[tof63]

RE: BVE4 Beta Destoys my midi sounds

They work fine on my system. I had a fresh installation of Windows XP with SP2 integrated about 10 days ago, so I've few programs istalled at now.

Luigi Cartello

http://bve.altervista.org/

http://web.tiscali.it/lcartello/

[Allan_Stevens]

RE: BVE4 Beta Destoys my midi sounds

This has happened to me before, but I can't remember the context.

Anyway, if you look in the soundcard volume controls, you'll probably see that the Synth volume has been turned down, so turning it up should solve the problem.

Allan

[Ron Booker]

RE: BVE4 Beta Destoys my midi sounds

Thanks,

I ran the DirectX Diagnostic and found the following were not working:

Microsoft Midi Mapper [Emulate]
A: SB Live Midi Synth [Emulate]
B: SB Live Midi Synth [Emulate]
SB Live! Soft Synth [Emulate]

I have reinstalled BV4 and my SB LiveValue Drivers. Seems to be working ok now. I think the main problem I was having was playing around with Registy Mechanic too much (taking out entries that I really didn't and still don't understand).

Thanks for the all the help.