by Gez » Mon Jan 06, 2014 23:01
Yes and no. It depends. See
software synthesizers for reference. But in short:
- Anything that is a system-wide MIDI driver can be chosen as a MIDI device (this includes MS synth if you are on Windows, as well as any actual soundcard plugged in your computer if you have the drivers for them)
- Anything else can probably be turned into a system-wide MIDI driver with loopbe1 or midiyoke
- ZDoom already features [wiki]OPL[/wiki] emulation and [wiki]GUS[/wiki] emulation
Now, as for DOSBox OPL emulation in particular, this one is troublesome. There are two different DOSBox OPL emulators, the most recent of which cannot be integrated in ZDoom for [wiki]license[/wiki] incompatibility reasons.
Yes and no. It depends. See [wiki=software_synthesizer]software synthesizers[/wiki] for reference. But in short:
[list][*]Anything that is a system-wide MIDI driver can be chosen as a MIDI device (this includes MS synth if you are on Windows, as well as any actual soundcard plugged in your computer if you have the drivers for them)
[*]Anything else can probably be turned into a system-wide MIDI driver with loopbe1 or midiyoke
[*]ZDoom already features [wiki]OPL[/wiki] emulation and [wiki]GUS[/wiki] emulation[/list]
Now, as for DOSBox OPL emulation in particular, this one is troublesome. There are two different DOSBox OPL emulators, the most recent of which cannot be integrated in ZDoom for [wiki]license[/wiki] incompatibility reasons.