HELP PLS: recreating old Roland synth via a sample recorder/player

Question

Attempting to generate a 'Virtual Synth' Bringing the CM-64 (2 kinds of MT-32 together) back from the dead by recording every sound, every bank....
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Thanks to all

Answer 1

Resampling hundreds of sounds from an old cheap sound module, just to make your MIDI files playback exactly the same seems a lot of work (and disk space), especially considering most of those sounds are poor by today's standards anyway. And you'd need to have access to the module to sample it anyway.
Each sound has to be considered individually, and multisampled across the keyboard, and potentially acorss the dynamics too if the sounds vary significantly with velocity. And then you have to consider what the performance stuff does as well (mod wheel, aftertouch etc).
So, I would either load the midifiles and reassign with newer, better sounds (so the songs will sound better too), or pick up a CM64 module (or MT-32 + U110, because that's what the CM-64 is) for peanuts on ebay to get the exact same sounds.
Even autosampling the entire module won't get you exactly the same sounds, because samples are only a static snapshot of a sound - you'd have to do a lot of multisampling, and instrument building afterwards. Even if you bought tools to help this process, you've already spent more money than picking up the module costs, and still have days of painstaking work ahead of you.
Use new sounds, or buy and use a secondhand module, is my advice. They are cheap as chips (and cheap sounding too.)