I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me despite my not having requested this...
> On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: >> Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); >> have you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files? > I believe I tried that, but I can't recall. As it stands now, I just keep > the source to 2.3 around for safekeeping. Right... >> I use it from time to time, and I think that it should be left in the >> archive until most people are using 2.6-series kernels (and, thus, ALSA). > Ah, I've been lax; I haven't even moved to ALSA yet. Does it do good MIDI? There are, or possibly were, a few known omissions (I forget what) but I find that it's good enough for what I want. >> I have an SBLive; it has an on-board synth, which sounds almost as good as >> timidity (and has the advantage of using next to no CPU power). > Odd, my current SBLive (bought about a month ago) doesn't seem to have on > board synth. Even so, if it only sounds "almost as good as" timidity, > that's pretty piss poor. I say "almost as good as", but then I'm using headphones. Maybe I should have said that... Switching on its "3D" sound makes it sound practically the same... use an 8MB soundfonts file rather than a 4MB one, or possibly good speakers instead of cheap headphones, and it may well sound better than timidity. >> OTOH, the only synth support for emu10k1 is in ALSA, although there's OSS >> support for the MIDI port on these cards (but I don't have anything to >> plug in there). > That would explain why I can't use synth on mine. Hmm. Build ALSA, install awesfx, put the following few lines (or something similar; the first line works for SBLive 5.1 Digital) in a file in /etc/modutils, run update-modules... options snd-emu10k1 index=0 id=SBLive extin=0x3fc3 extout=0x1fff post-install snd-emu10k1 modprobe snd-emu10k1-synth post-install snd-emu10k1-synth modprobe snd-seq-oss post-install snd-seq-oss /usr/bin/sfxload -i /usr/local/share/sfbank/ct4mgm.sf2 (Hmm. playmidi should suggest awesfx. <clickety>) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Retrocomputing: a PC card in a Risc PC Unknown disk error, 0:1
