I was wondering if you could try to develop an SPU plugin that gave the option of letting you use your MIDI hardware on games like FF8,FF9, etc.
Now, I know that in most cases that approach would sound terrible because you can't load the samples into the Hardware MIDI port, but the samples on FF9 (the game I'm trying to get to run smoothely), are NEARLY IDENTICAL to the samples on my XG hardware device.
Why am I asking this? Two reasons:
1. Because I'm pretty sure people are curious if it'll actually work;
2. my processor is simply not fast enough to smoothely emulate the MIDI aspect of the SPU in current plugins. The obvious answer would be to upgrade the dang thing, but I won't be able to get the money to do so for probably another year or two.
Now, I know that in most cases that approach would sound terrible because you can't load the samples into the Hardware MIDI port, but the samples on FF9 (the game I'm trying to get to run smoothely), are NEARLY IDENTICAL to the samples on my XG hardware device.
Why am I asking this? Two reasons:
1. Because I'm pretty sure people are curious if it'll actually work;
2. my processor is simply not fast enough to smoothely emulate the MIDI aspect of the SPU in current plugins. The obvious answer would be to upgrade the dang thing, but I won't be able to get the money to do so for probably another year or two.