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I use DOSbox for running for example King's Quest 5. I have:

-windows XP
-VIA '97 Audiocard

Soundblaster sounds fine, no problem with speech. But with MIDI the music sounds if it's using the wrong instruments.

What to do? I can't change any settings on my soundcard regarding MIDI (it says it's emulating Roland Canvas).

I cannot change the settings to general midi, because I don't have that file (Sierra genmidi.drv, maybe I can download it somewhere..)

[Eagle of Fire]

Midi files back in the days were extremely terrible. Recently (as in not so long ago) breakthru in audio cards managed to turn Midi files as very high quality sound output with the exact same files. This was a change in drivers and hardware, not a change in the files themselves.

Thus, it is extremely normal to my oppinion to have Midi files which sound awfull in a DOS environment (thus DOSBox too since it emulate an old 486) since they were originally meant to be played that way. If you play those very same Midi files in Windows then you should be able to hear a high quality sound or music.

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in dosbox you have to select general midi.
if you select roland canvas then the intrument banks are definetly being wrong.

I had this problem before, long time ago. But I don't know how I fixed it then...

I mean, the music is just 'false'. The basedrum has become a TUBA or something like that. I just doesn't sounds right.

How can I change DOSbox to 'general midi'?

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no your soundcard must be general midi and you should select for games inside dosbox the same.

dosbox forwards the mpu401 calls to your own pc. (and adds some complex emulation to provide irq and such)

I can't change it..

Now I am using the soundblaster/adlib driver. Strangely, it looks like it's using the right MIDI map now. (indeed, no adlib-sounds, but midi, strange).

[Eagle of Fire]

DOSBox completely emulate a 486 pc. This mean that it doesn't use your soundcard at all when emulating the sound of the game. I am not really sure since your screenshot is in a foreign language for me but I shall guess that you are trying to change your Windows setting hoping it will help solve your problem in DOSBox.

This won't help at all. You should try playing with the settings in the game while running DOSBox instead and select Soundblaster as sound even if you don't have a Soundblaster card installed in your computer case.