Yamaha FM Driver

[Rhizome]

Some of you may be aware that the Yamaha YMF724 sound card has the 2MB XG wavetable AND an OPL3 chip built into one card. When I installed XP, it detected the FM chip and installed the FM chip as a MIDI device (I could even play back MIDI files on it and listen to certain game's music files off of it). Since installing the proper XG driver, this has now dissapeared and I can't even roll back the driver to get the FM synthesizer again. I've tried searching for the driver, but it's no use.

Does any one know where I can find this driver or have the FM synthesizer and XG synthesizer both workable in Windows? I prefer playing some of my MIDI files off the OPL3 chip as it sounds better.

Thanks!

[ShaiWa]

Rhizome, did you ever found a fix for this.
Having the same problem here, would be nice to have XG and FM working.

[Rhizome]

Wow, blast from the past. I never did figure this out and I haven't actually touched one of these cards in over three years (using XP x64 which doesn't support the card at all).

[Great Hierophant]

Some of you may be aware that the Yamaha YMF724 sound card has the 2MB XG wavetable AND an OPL3 chip built into one card. When I installed XP, it detected the FM chip and installed the FM chip as a MIDI device (I could even play back MIDI files on it and listen to certain game's music files off of it). Since installing the proper XG driver, this has now dissapeared and I can't even roll back the driver to get the FM synthesizer again. I've tried searching for the driver, but it's no use.

Does any one know where I can find this driver or have the FM synthesizer and XG synthesizer both workable in Windows? I prefer playing some of my MIDI files off the OPL3 chip as it sounds better.

Thanks!

I believe I had the same problem in Windows 98SE.  If I stuck with the Windows default drivers, I would get FM midi.  If I used the updated drivers from Yamaha's site, I would get XG midi instead. 

[jharris01]

Yes it's a nice side effect of installing Yamaha Waveforce or Yamaha DS clone cards under Windows XP. You get "FM MIDI" as a device in the Sound Properties in Control Panel. I made a thread about it not too long ago (posted MP3 samples and everything). Like everyone else said (AFAIK) there isn't a downloadable version for this FM MIDI driver. It gets replaced as soon as you install the official drivers from Yamaha.

Now that we are at it: As part of the Windows installation, using the original win9x drivers that came on the Waveforce Installation CD, the setup program would install PCI-DOS drivers for the card. This would create a directory in the hard drive with utilities for setting up the card in DOS. I used it myself back then and it worked fine. I am not surprised to see GH saying good things now about the DOS compatibility of this yamaha chipset.

The DS-XG drivers that are floating around the Internet, although updated for win2000 and XP, do not install the PCI-DOS drivers. I am not sure if these drivers work on clone Waveforce cards. Would be interesting to find out.