Hi, Only few soundcards have hardware wavetable and only some of them have support in alsa.
For sb live you can try to use ld10k1. Audigy card under alsa can do mirroring (route to rear speakers) by default (all stereo inputs can be routed to rear and center,lfe outputs - this is only copy of front). For sb live driver can be changed to support this too, but no one done this yet. Peter Zubaj On Monday 06 February 2006 20:12, EmIScA wrote: > Which sound card you suggest to use in alternative to sblive or audigy > in the same price range? > I'm looking for a not too expensive but well supported card, with > hardware mixing support. > I thought that emu10k1 is well supported by alsa and generally linux > applications... > > Bye > Emilio Scalise > > Vladimir Mosgalin ha scritto: > >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) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
