On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:44:38 +0100
Andreas Kågedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed alsa to support my SB PCI 128 (snd-ens1371) (alsa
> 0.9.0rc3). Everything works greate except for midi. When I look in the
> documentation that came with the card, it seems it is necessary to load
> the sound/patch/samples onto the card somehow before it will work (2MB,
> 4MB and 8MB sample files are included on a CD).
>
> Is this possible to do in Alsa? Am I doning something else wrong? When I
> built the alsa drivers i ran the configure script like this:
>
> ./configure --with-cards=ens1371,virmidi --with-sequencer=yes -with-oss=yes
>
>
> See also below for the output of
>
> pmidi -l
> lsmod
> cat /etc/modules.conf
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> /Andreas
<snip>
Your card hasn't hardware to convert a midi file or stream to sound. It's all
done in software under Linux as well as Windows. In Linux you can use timidity.
IIUC Creative Labs has advertised this card in a way suggesting that the
sound/patch/samples have to be loaded to the card before it will
work, like a card with an onboard wavetable synthesizer. However, all is done
in software (the CPU does the work without help from the sound hardware).
IIRC they called it 'wavetable synthesizer _emulation_' :)
HTH,
-Frans
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