Takashi Iwai wrote: > William wrote: > "Random intermittent distortion" means, e.g. the sound during MIDI playback > becomes "muffled" for a minute or two and then returns to normal sound > quality, or the sound wrongly becomes mono for a few seconds, and then > returns to stereo. > Also, it seems emu10k1 does not load soundfonts correctly, > especially if you ever use any really large 25MB soundfonts. > >> The 25MB piano soundfont is here: >> http://www.wstco.com/pianosounds/freesoundfont.htm >> Please note the author Warren has told me his soundfont is not re-distributable. >> >> ALSA soundfont loading: asfxload WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 >> ALSA OSS-mode soundfont loading: sfxload WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 > > check /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* file whether all instruments are > loaded. you can see there the memory usage, number of instruments, > etc.
Experiment 1: ------------- Load the 25MB piano soundfont file: $ asfxload /tmp/WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64 Allocated Voices: 0 Memory Size: 134217728 Memory Available: 108226960 Allocated Blocks: 45 SoundFonts: 1 Instruments: 4078 Samples: 44 Locked Instruments: 4078 Locked Samples: 44 $ wget http://members.aol.com/myworks/r-c-no02.mid $ aplaymidi -p 65:0 r-c-no02.mid In this case, you can hear music from the Audigy 2 ZS. Experiment 2: ------------- Load the manufacturer's Standard GM Midi file: $ asfxload /etc/synthgm.sbk $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64 Allocated Voices: 0 Memory Size: 134217728 Memory Available: 134213632 Allocated Blocks: 1 SoundFonts: 1 Instruments: 569 Samples: 152 Locked Instruments: 569 Locked Samples: 152 $ wget http://members.aol.com/myworks/r-c-no02.mid $ aplaymidi -p 65:0 r-c-no02.mid In this case, there is total silence from the Audigy 2 ZS. William ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
