Rolands Virtual Sound Canvas is a soft-synth program that upgrades the sound card to a much higher level, and it has a great little readout of all 16 channels, and you can see the activity. Go to Edirol's website and check it out. It's cheap, and it sounds great too. It will also let you play midi files right from the explorer window with a simple double click!
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