This is done through CC (control change) messages. ![]() You can get very sophisticated with MIDI. ![]() But you can't do anything outside the specifications so I guess it's mostly only good for music and simple sound effects. Yes I think midi has commands for effects like echo and reverb and also things like sustain pedals on midi keyboards. (That old computer has a nice sound card.) I suppose one could do the TIE Fighter dynamic music thing with MP3 or OGG snippets, since a modern computer should have no trouble with overlapping playback, but to my knowledge nobody has. Several years back, I slung together a sound bank and associated sound card settings specifically to sound good playing TIE Fighter music - I ran a couple instances of a simple reverb on the sound card's DSP so as to save CPU cycles for DOSBox, and routed the music through the reverb and the sound effects through a dry channel. I guess they just haven't really cared for a while, since nothing uses GM any more. ![]() In addition, GM is a bit tricky to get right because all the instruments have to work together in all possible situations, but I suppose that's hardly an excuse for a bad-sounding knockoff of a good-sounding GM synth. MP3 files are even easier to make, small enough that it doesn't matter to a modern PC, and sound even better.
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