If you have both MIDI and FF7Music working at the same time you're not using the driver. You should probably look into that first.
how do i know if i'm actually using the driver?(well im assuming that it work because there's no problem playing ff7.no crashing whatsoever.other than the sound problem .though i might be wrong)
i've downloaded your driver and extract all the content to where the ff7config is.
then after replacing files and whatnot i open the replaced ff7config and change setting to custom driver.
then it notified me that im ready to use the opengl.cfg.
then i install ff7music by the installer Covar provided.
it automatically add the music plugin line in opengl.cfg.
i make sure that there's no # before the music plugin line.
so where did i go wrong?
When using FF7music, Aali's driver will stop the midi from playing right?
However in my case the midi doesn't stop playing.
Both MIDI and FF7music are playing.
I even tried the Loopybe1.that didn't help at all.
Use this --> http://www.mediafire.com/?youxb3ffocxdf7j
thanks for the help.that really help alot. i tried this on my windows 7 64 bit computer.
the result:only ff7music playing and no midi which is good.and there's sound fx to be heard which is good.
my only gripe is that sometimes there's a missing sound(missing sfx like in some scene)
for my another computer (windows 7 32 bit)i tried another solution.
and i manage to find another solution that help completely restore any missing sound that i previously had.and play ff7music without playing the midi perfectly.
GOD DAMN that took a very long time but I finally figured it out. I hate Vista more than ever now.
I'll try and write a guide in case anyone has the same issues as me but I can't guarantee coherency. This is for Vista users who have done everything in Covarr's guide but still have two sets of music playing, the midi and the music you selected with FF7music. If you try to go into the game's config settings and lower the music volume, you also lose sound effect volume. Here is how to fix that.
1.) First, some house cleaning. This may not be a mandatory step. Go to your User directory. Right click inside somewhere, go to properties, and select show hidden files and folders. Next, go into your AppData folder (it will look like a ghost folder if you are able to show hidden files and folders). Find your VirtualStore folder somewhere in that director. I had to go through AppData > Local to find mine. Inside your Virtual Store folder, navigate to your Final Fantasy VII program folder as if you were navigating to it from your C:\ drive. Delete your SquareSoft, Inc or Final Fantasy VII folder (however you installed it, just get everything). If you were never able to find your Virtual Store folder or the Final Fantasy VII folder within it, great.
2.) Download Highwind. You can find that here: http://christian59.ch.funpic.de/html/highwind.htm
3.) Extract the contents of the Highwind download to a folder, doesn't really matter where. Desktop, user-created subfolder within FF7 directory, whatever. I would NOT recommend the root directory of FF7.
4.) Right click on Highwind.exe and go to Compatibility. Select Run As Administrator.
5.) Open Highwind.exe. Click on Open Archive and find midi.lgp by going to your FF7 directory then Data > Midi. Open it.
6.) Make sure Create Backup is checked.
7.) Click Remove until everything is, well, removed.
8.) Click Save Changes and close Highwind.
9.) On FF7 music, click Run FF7. Tada!
this was from one of Covarr's earlier ff7music thread.this really helped me alot too.
EDIT:though i still have no idea what was wrong with my computers.I mean Obesebear provided me with a novolumemidi.lgp
while dyserga use Highwind to remove all the song from midi.lgp...doesnt seem like much of a difference but dyserga's method turn out to be more effective with no missing sound(SFX) problem.