> Hi Lorenz. I'm sorry at giving you false hopes in being able to load > soundfonts on your card. I thought that all soundcards with a wavetable Synth > were capable of it. Regarding the Ensoniq card. I have one of these too on > another machine, and it uses the es1371 driver, but again has no wavetable > synth. It does work ok with Alsa though. Something I cannot understand is why > you are getting such terrible latency problems. Using jackd > (jack-audio-connection-kit) and Qjackctl, even with a latency of 42.7 msec on > an FC2 install, I cannot detect any latency when playing my Evolution MK225C > usb keyboard. The only problems I have with severe latency is with Wine. > Using VSTi's with Savihost, and Wine I get latency problems like playing a > pipe organ. I see from the Vivanco site (which is incredibly slow) that the > card isn't expensive. so an alternative is to buy a Creative card that uses > an EMU driver if you want to use soundfonts, or first. Install jackd, and > Qjackctl (the GUI frontend to jackd with a midi connections panel) . then > install ZynAddSubFx (synth). Then you can try your keyboard using > ZynAddSubFx, and play with the latency problems in Qjackctl's setup. With FC2 > in Qjackctl's setup I have "Frames/Period" set to 1024, and "Periods/Buffer" > to 2. This gives me a latency of 42.7 msec, not fantastic, but hardly > noticeable. If you don't have realtime capabilities in the kernel, make sure > you uncheck the "Realtime" box in Qjackctl, otherwise the jack daemon won't > start. You still havn't said which distro, or kernel you are using, but if > you are using a 2.4 kernel the "Server path" in Qjackctl needs to be > "jackstart". If you are using a 2.6 kernel the "Server path" needs to be > "jackd" . All the best, and I hope to hear you making some music soon. Nigel. Hi, I have a Ensoniq Card here. It uses snd-ens1371, but as far I know, it doesn't have a onboard synth, too... My USB keyboard hasn't any noticeable latency, but I still have ~250 ms with qsynth. Maybe because I'm running a PIII 800... My dist is Gentoo, my kernel 2.6.14-ck6. I bought this Vivanco-card, because the hompage tells me about a onboard wavetable synth. So I don't trust descriptions any more. Would be very very nice, if somebody simply told me the name/a link of a card, wich plays midi without a software synth.
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