At Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:26:22 +0000, Paul Evans wrote: > > I notice there's 4 MIDI softsynth ports on my SBLive: > > pe208@pe208:~ > pmidi -l > Port Client name Port name > 64:0 External MIDI 0 MIDI 0-0 > 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 > 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1 > 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2 > 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3 > > How is the card's total polyphony distributed over these? I seem to recall > the Windows driver has 1024 note maximum. Can I assume each of these ports > is therefore 256 note? Or is it dynamically allocated?
Emu10k1 has only 64 hardware mono voices. The number 1024 is an advertisement (as usual :). Achieved not by hardware but by software synthesis. And, on ALSA, these 64 voices are dynamically allocated regardless of the port number. When over 64 voices are played, the oldest voice is released. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
