James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > William wrote: >> James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> >>>Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. >>>Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa >> >> Are you going to work on any other Audigy-series drivers, e.g. Audigy 2 ZS? >> I'm finding the emu10k1 driver in alsa-driver-1.0.5a has serious problems >> with random intermittent distortion of the soundfont samples while they are >> being played on the soundcard's MIDI synthesiser, e.g. using aplaymidi -p 65:0. >> "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. > > I don't have an Audigy 2 ZS, so unless someone donates one, I can't help > you there.
At the moment I also have an Audigy LS (5.1) which seems to have similar problems to the Audigy 2 ZS. > Can you post to a web site your soundfonts file, and instructions on how > to use them with the creative cards, I might be able to help. 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 Sample MIDI files for piano: http://members.aol.com/sdrodrian/ $ aplaymidi -l Port Client name Port name 62:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 64:0 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) - Rawmidi Audigy MPU-401 (UART) 64:32 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) - Rawmidi Audigy MPU-401 #2 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3 72:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-0 VirMIDI 1-0 73:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-1 VirMIDI 1-1 74:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-2 VirMIDI 1-2 75:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-3 VirMIDI 1-3 $ aplaymidi -p 65:0 midi_music_file.mid An even better test would be to do some experiments on an Audigy using Rosegarden 4 0.9.8 for MIDI playback, JACK audio, etc http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ > I have a cheepo Audigy 2 (old version) that I might be able to reproduce > your problems on. > > I don't work with MIDI much, which is why I have not added MIDI support > to the Audigy LS driver at the moment. I hope you will add MIDI support; I think it would be a great improvement. 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