Hi, At Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:55:40 +0100 (CET), Jean Francois Ortolo wrote: > > Hi Patrick > Here is my response below. > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure thexse cards don't have an onboard synthetizor > > > > > Wrong. This cards advertises as having a GM ( General Midi ), both GS > and XG ( Yamaha standard ) fully compatible synthetizor built in. No, the chip has no (so-called) wavetable function. The all MIDI playback functions on Windows are software emulation, well, maybe optimized somehow for the chip.
> I know this sound card is very recent, maybe a little cheap, but not too > much, and you didn't ever hear speaking about sound cards without any > synthetizor built in, did you? More or less, MIDI playbacks are software emulation except of few cards. For example, SB Live! has a good MIDI playback function, but it's also not truely MIDI but just a (so-called) wavetable function. We need a driver to handle the wavetable according to the receiving MIDI event. In this perspective, it's also a software emulation. On most cards like CM8738, there is no WaveTable on them but only PCM playback function. Thus the MIDI is rendered onto PCM streams (some chips can do it partially by hardware) by the driver - i.e. software. > This advertising for this card is fully supported by all vendors I've > seen until now. There is no doubt about this. Don't trust advertising ;) > The real problem might probably be, that I have to run some of the Alsa > utilities, such as either amixer, alsamixer, or alsactl, then do something > specific, that should make the Synth capability, being enabled. > > Or I have to manually edit the /etc/asound.conf config file, in such a > way I'm actually searching about. > > the man pages about these utilities, do say there are some specific > capabilities, that may be activated only by manually editing the > /etc/asound.conf i.e. without the utilities help. > > So what should I do with the /etc/asound.conf file? FM OPL3 is supported but the sound quality may not satisfy you. You can try timidity with ALSA interface mode to play with Jazz or others. Takashi > > Many thanks. > Best regards. > > Jean Francois Ortolo > > > > Jean Francois Ortolo wrote: > > > > It appears that all devices work well, apart from the Synth capability. > > > > > > So what could I do, in order to make the Synth capability, active? > > > > > > I've installed the Jazz++ program, which works well, didn't try > > > recording from my keyboard until now, for the moment I can't output any > > > sound to the speakers, using the existing demo midi files. External Midi > > > works very well with it. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > Best regards. > > > > > > Jean Francois Ortolo > > > > > > PS Here is the /proc/asound/sndstat results: > > > > > > Sound Driver:3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.12a emulation code) > > > Kernel: Linux ortolojf.noos.fr 2.4.2-2 #3 dim déc 9 21:44:11 CET 2001 i686 > > > Config options: 0 > > > > > > Installed drivers: > > > Type 10: ALSA emulation > > > > > > Card config: > > > C-Media PCI CM8738 (model 37) at 0xdc00, irq 5 > > > > > > Audio devices: > > > 0: C-Media PCI DAC/ADC (DUPLEX) > > > > > > Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG > > > > > > Midi devices: > > > 0: MPU-401 (UART) > > > > > > Timers: > > > 7: system timer > > > > > > Mixers: > > > 0: C-Media PCI > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
