Here Midi hit lists, of the 1970's & 1980's

Hey all, here a nice 1980's compilation I gathered for all you Midi music lovers ideal for Roland, Yamaha, Terratec, Creative & Turtle Beach Midi lovers out there, Enjoy!

Yea they sound fantastic with my Terratec Promedia Audio System EWS64 XL that backfire Trace repaired & gave a full gold recap with 49 + 6 Nichicon FG Professional Audio Grade Gold Capacitors:


This card with it's 5.25" Digital Interface drive unit looks clean and works even better than a new one, the gold caps clear out the sound distortion and also get rid of signal noise by providing a very clean sound, it also support 4 Speaker Midi surround as well , not many sound cards have this advantage except for the Yamaha Sound Wave 1000 XG PCI and the never released Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold II CT4560.

Quote from GrandAdmiralThrawn

Aahaha, mein moderner FiiO USB DAC scheint kein Midi zu mögen. Klingt fast wie eine Soundblaster AWE64 unter DOS. Blast from the Past, sodenn das etwas wert sein sollte. Sicher mal nicht General Midi, sofern das auf moderner Hardware überhaupt geht? Auf jeden Fall ein Haufen Klassiker, danke!

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Aahaha, my modern FiiO USB DAC doesn't seem to like Midi. Almost sounds kinda like a Soundblaster AWE64 on DOS. Blast from the past if that's worth anything. Surely not General Midi, if that's even possible on modern PC hardware? In any case that's one lot of classics, thanks for that!

here's the cure this is probably the best emulator for new gen sound cards out there , it surely beats the crap out of General Midi:
VirtualMIDISynth | CoolSoft

You can grab the free sound fonts from here
free-soundfonts-sf2-2019-04 directory listing

Also don't forget to add the Coolsoft Midi mapper:
MIDIMapper | CoolSoft

it works great with my Creative Sound Blaster X AE-5 Plus for example.

Quote from GrandAdmiralThrawn

Danke, werde ich heute abend ausprobieren!

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Thanks, will try today in the evening!

Yea tons of sound fonts as well the one I like using most with my AE-5 Plus is these:

Yamaha XG Sound Set
Yamaha Tyros 4 Just T4 fixed

These two get the best out of the AE-5 Pus chip, sadly no Terratec EWS64 XL emulation as the Crystal & Dream chips go.
The EWS64 XL still wins even when compared to this emulation program, the EWS64 XL is a whole new level of midi by it's self.
Just make a folder and dump all the sound fonts in there.

There is some good news thought, this Midi emulator can sound better than an AWE64 Gold when using the Yamaha sound fonts, so not all hope is lost ether.
So there is that, plus there is also an AWE64 Gold Emulation file which is this one:

Just make sure you have one activated mixing can be somewhat troublesome
Also have the sound fonts placed in a separate folder as I have done here:


Here the CooMIDISynth configuration program settings that I use:

You don't use Winamp you need to run the CoolMIDISynth program along side it.
it works well with Win10 & 11, never tried it in Win7 though but that should be supported afaik.

Oh you use Cool Soft Virtual MIDI Synth as a background program because this is needed for the Midi Emulation, WinAmp is the player you use, with Win10 I use WinAmp 5.9.2 which was released in 2023.

And this is how I do it on modern system the retro PC's are easy because of the EWS64 XL & AWE664 Gold the hardware does it all, but for new gen systems this is truly the solution, just combine both to get the result you seek.

Not sure what OS you are using tho and what version of Winamp either, Winamp 2.81 was my favorite but not sure that runs in Win10 on a 64 Bit system, I could test the version you have and see if I can get it going, idea?

in theory any kind of sound card will work it'[s only that Cool Soft Virtual MIDI Synth is a separate tool that runs in the background while WinAmp plays the music with the aid of Cool Soft Virtual MIDI Synth, that is how it works, sorry explaining has never been easy for me, but I do try

not sure if it works with WinXP X64 but Win 11 X64 should work like it does in Win10 pro x64 that I use here.
but maybe because you are using that older version that may be the culprit to the issue, I'd have no idea of otherwise, I use Winamp 5.92 just for the player and the Cool Soft Virtual MIDI Synth as a background program, this works fine for me, maybe try a newer version of Winamp and see if you can get it working that way, you can always revert back to the older version.

Quote from GrandAdmiralThrawn

Ah, meine XP x64 Workstation hat grade Probleme (sie läuft, das sehe ich über's Netzwerk, aber das Display ist schwarz, Ausgabe weg), also habe ich das auf meiner Spielebox mit Windows 11 23H2 probiert.

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Ah, my XP x64 Workstation has some problems right now (it's running, I can verify that via the network, but the display is black, output gone), so I actually tried this on my gaming system running Windows 11 23H2.

Hey nice, yea it's a bit of a hassle at the start, is with everything new to me though, but once you do get it working you'd be happy you set through it because it is worth it, for now this is the best emulator for modern sound cards than lack a proper Midi player/emulation.

I'm on Win10 Pro x64 UK 22H1 and it runs flawlessly with WinAmp 5.93 as the player and Cool Soft Virtual MIDI Synth as the Midi emulator, a perfect combination.

Here an updated version, sorry guys.
1980's Midi's.zip

Hey all!

Here all here it finally is then, my 1970's Pop & Disco Midi Hit List, it is consisted of roughly just under 60 tracks, this is ideal for people that love to play high quality midi music files on their Midi sound cards & DAC's and alike
1970's Pop & Disco Midi Hit List.zip

Just for the head's up, I did not make the midi music myself, just been hunting down good quality midi's that make a great compilation.

Enjoy the vibes!

Greets, Goldie