On November 22, 2002 11:10 pm, Julien Patrick Claassen wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Mark Swanson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking to purchase a new card that has hardware mixing so multiple > > programs can access the sound card at the same time (arts/esd/JACK with > > Java 1.4.2beta/ALSA). > > > > Any suggestions for the cheapest card that works the best, has hardware > > mixing and midi? > > I think the sblive is worthy a look. I don't know about it very much > though. But the sblive has the emu10k1 chip, which allows to open 7 or 8 > devices, unless I'm much mistaken.
Thanks Julien, that was a great response. I picked up a sblive for 48 CAD and it worked great. It even solved some of the lockup problems I was having with my ens1371. After many hours of reading and playing around I've found: 1. The sblive (emu10k1) is the only hardware midi synthesis card you can buy in a "normal" computer store is the sblive. Source:http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September2002/article259.shtml 2. Even though artsd/esd is hogging the sound/pcm/mixer? device I can still use 'play' and 'aplay' to play wav files. With my ens1371 I could not do this. 3. Even though artsd/esd is hogging the midi device I can still use pmidi to play midi music. 4. I can not play oss midi while artsd/esd is running - I do not know why. What will be really great is that Java 1.4.2 will support ALSA, and will be able to play MIDI files even when artsd/esd is running! Thanks again. BTW, I was worried it wouldn't work with my VIA chipset, but it worked perfectly and I didn't have to make any BIOS changes (defaults were fine). Your mileage may vary as I have read about other people having troubles with sblive and VIA chipsets. 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) -- Schedule your world with ScheduleWorld.com http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
