This could actually be done pretty easily, if you have the time and hardware to do it. What you'd have to do is to record samples of all the midi notes at all 128 patches produced by some old soundcard (preferably a sound blaster pro 2.0 IMO, love the sound of the midi synth in that card. Why? Becau...

Being a sound tech student, I know a bit about DAT players. Most of them, maybe all of them have some kind of digital output. Those I've been using have optical S/P-DIF outputs (and inputs). Connect this to the S/P-DIF on you computer sound card, and you'll be able to extract the audio with no quali...