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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Game support for MIDI MPU401?
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Date: 7 Jan 91 18:18:49 GMT
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In article <56470005@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) writes:
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<Recently, I installed Sierra's Police Quest 2 on my PC which has the
<Roland MPU 401 MIDI processor attached to it.  The PQ2 install asked for
<my sound equipment configuration, and one of the choices was the MT32
<card, to which I said OK (which was a lie).
<
<Much to my surprise, when I played the game, sound came forth from the
<synth I had had attached to the MPU401!!!
<
<I was under the impression that the MT32 was a synthesizer (i.e. generates
<sounds electronically all by itself).  On the other hand, the MPU401 
<is NOT a synth, it processes MIDI data streams and passes them on (silently).

Yes, the MT32 is a 32-voice synthesizer, IN A SEPARATE BOX !!  When you buy
it for your PC, it comes with a card and cable to connect to this external
box, using MIDI.  The card may even be your MPU-401 (?).

The idea was that they could sell the sam MT32 for several different computers
by merely supplying a simple MIDI interface card for each (MAC, PC, AMIGA,..).


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