>> How can I keep my MIDI from sounding like a cheesy video game? >> >> I suspect its my card. What card would give me excellent/sample >> quality midi or playback? > > If you have an emu10k1 based card and are using the hardware > wavetable synth, the single best thing you can do is get a decent > soundfont. The ones that come with the Windows driver all suck. This is my standard answer to that... hehe... this is the best soundfont I've heard.... http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/fluid-unpacked/ It's 141 Megs. I (think) some hardware wavetable synths have limited capacity. If so use a soft synth like fluidsynth. Rocco