Hi Brian Dunn!
On 2006.02.06 at 11:27:10 -0600, Brian Dunn wrote next:
I read somewhere that the rear output DACs on my SBLive Value are
superior to the front ones, so my monitors are connected to the rear
I'd say that if you definitely hear the difference, you should consider
buying some other card ASAP. Preferable not the one from creative, they
don't make good cards. Well, it's not that their cards are bad, but each
one has some flaws which makes sound quality worse that other cards of
the same price. They have some good cards in professional line, like
1212M, but it isn't supported by alsa yet.
If you can't hear the difference.. why bother?
out. I'm using qsynth with jack when i'm focusing on audio, but it
seemslike a shame to have that wave table and whopping 13megs of DRAM
just sitting there... It would be nice to asfxload some small GM
soundfont so i can tinker with ditties without having to run jack (
witch is inconvinient when i'm compiling, or have 13 firefox windows
and some open office going on ). It seems there should be some way to
route the synth channel to the rear speakers... maybe with an
.asoundrc file? has anybody done this?
emu10k wavetable synth doesn't need any special routing; also front
channel is routed to the rear output by default, there is "surround"
mixer in its past. If you have already unmuted it, you should hear the
same sound from front and rear output jacks. It doesn't matter whether
you play pcm sound, use software synth or the hardware one.
However, I suggest you to stay away from hardware synth on sb live, it
sucks. There is something wrong with it, it sounds right in windows, but
the sound is different with alsa drivers in linux. Try timidity; it can
use your favorite soundfonts and with the right tweaks it can sound
quite good. It is also more conservative about memory - it loads only
samples which are actually used. You can use huge (100-200mb) soundfonts
and don't think about memory issues.
(actually, why would you care about them anyway? Linux has pretty good
VM subsystem, if you don't use the part of memory that contains
soundfonts for a while, it gets swapped out and memory for your precious
firefox windows is freed)
