When I tried BASSMIDI, the music would distort after a few seconds of play and then turn silent, to reappear every once in a while for a few seconds.
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I assume this is a Windows 8 issue, so any Win8 users may find this useful.
![Roland gm sf2 Roland gm sf2](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1uJtREPBZPrxQc_3AeWL9yjij2iBcW89_tDuXvFjQrDZYNpkyOn3Lw7d8eiT-xPlH0awtw9zeqcA0cCQEIrUeVKLs_3Hyo5SsJEf9FhED5mUpoPjTpiTQwAysPYo8BtaBnj0aPZar5ovJK2I1IwQtlq8gb403taHpVDI6c6L3p1TsJRKdHGNIeBP/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/1y.png)
I'll share in case others run into similar issues. Unfortunately, I could not get BASSMIDI to work properly, but found a different solution. I had a better experience with it than BASSMIDI, and would like to suggest trying this instead, especially for Windows 8 users. I'd like to recommend an alternative user driver MIDI device: VirtualMIDISynth. I wanted to do that too, since I have the audio tracks played with an AWE 32 burnt into my mind.
![Roland gm sf2 Roland gm sf2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kEUm9vzQDP4/maxresdefault.jpg)
Xenoneo's idea to exchange the Midi Soundbank is great.