MIDI-out Driver for Turtle Beach MultiSound Adapter

 Last reviewed: May 14, 1997
Article ID: Q113707
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1

There is a shareware MIDI-out driver for the Turtle Beach MultiSound adapter available on CompuServe. The developer of this driver is also working on a MIDI-in driver and may also develop an audio driver. This multimedia device is not currently on the Windows NT hardware compatibility list (HCL). The MIDI-out driver is available in compressed format as MIDOUT.ZIP and can be obtained from the Win NT Shareware section of the WUGNET forum on CompuServe. Please note that this driver is not supported by Microsoft or Turtle Beach.

Steps to install Midi-out driver for the Turtle Beach MultiSound board

  1. Use a utility to extract the MIDI-Out driver from MIDOUT.ZIP.
2. Copy MULTISND.SYS to the SYSTEM32\DRIVERS sub-directory. 3. Modify MULTISND.INI to match your shared buffer and I/O addresses. (The 
   IRQ number is not used unless you are configuring for MIDI-in.)
4. To create the necessary Registry entries, type the following command: 

      regini multisnd.ini

  • Shutdown and restart your computer (or start the new service manually from the Services portion of Control Panel).

    Registry Entries Created

       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MultiSnd

      DisplayName: REG_SZ: MultiSnd
      Type: REG_DWORD: 0x00000001
      Start: REG_DWORD: 0x00000002
      ErrorControl: REG_DWORD: 0x00000001

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MultiSnd\Parameters

      Interrupt: REG_DWORD: 0x00000010
      Port: REG_DWORD: 0x00000290
      SMA Start: REG_DWORD: 0x000d0000

    Files Required for MIDI-out Driver

       REGINI.EXE
   MULTISND.INI
   MULTISND.SYS
   README.TXT
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    REFERENCES

    Direct questions and feedback to CIS ID 100064,2213 or 71333,2432.

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    Version : 3.1
    Platform : WINDOWS

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    Last reviewed: May 14, 1997
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