Hi Brian Dunn! On 2006.02.06 at 11:27:10 -0600, Brian Dunn wrote next:
> I read somewhere that the rear output DACs on my SBLive Value are > superior to the front ones, so my monitors are connected to the rear I'd say that if you definitely hear the difference, you should consider buying some other card ASAP. Preferable not the one from creative, they don't make good cards. Well, it's not that their cards are bad, but each one has some flaws which makes sound quality worse that other cards of the same price. They have some good cards in professional line, like 1212M, but it isn't supported by alsa yet. If you can't hear the difference.. why bother? > out. I'm using qsynth with jack when i'm focusing on audio, but it > seemslike a shame to have that wave table and whopping 13megs of DRAM > just sitting there... It would be nice to asfxload some small GM > soundfont so i can tinker with ditties without having to run jack ( > witch is inconvinient when i'm compiling, or have 13 firefox windows > and some open office going on ). It seems there should be some way to > route the synth channel to the rear speakers... maybe with an > .asoundrc file? has anybody done this? emu10k wavetable synth doesn't need any special routing; also front channel is routed to the rear output by default, there is "surround" mixer in its past. If you have already unmuted it, you should hear the same sound from front and rear output jacks. It doesn't matter whether you play pcm sound, use software synth or the hardware one. However, I suggest you to stay away from hardware synth on sb live, it sucks. There is something wrong with it, it sounds right in windows, but the sound is different with alsa drivers in linux. Try timidity; it can use your favorite soundfonts and with the right tweaks it can sound quite good. It is also more conservative about memory - it loads only samples which are actually used. You can use huge (100-200mb) soundfonts and don't think about memory issues. (actually, why would you care about them anyway? Linux has pretty good VM subsystem, if you don't use the part of memory that contains soundfonts for a while, it gets swapped out and memory for your precious firefox windows is freed) -- Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
