Thanks to Micca, I've been able to revert back to my 5 (I think) year old Yamaha daugter board and and happy with my MIDI again.

I thought others may be interested in the difference in sound between this and the two possible configurations of my new Sound Blaster Live card. This is a sort of middle of the road example - sometimes the differences are more striking than others.

The recordings in RM are not that brilliant but I have put them here together with the MIDI file I used.

Jon