Dear All,
I'm really sorry to ask this here, but the fact is that this is by
far the most knowledgable and helpful list I belong to (and I'm
desperate)....
It's about soundcards: I need a card of the type that will use
Soundfont files from system RAM and I've more or less detected that the
Creative Soundblasters will do this. There's the SB Live 1024, SB Live!
5.1 and SB 4.1 (described as 'entry-level'). The main issue is how many
notes they'll play at once. I see figures like 64 and 128, then I read
on the Creative website that a particular card will do 64 wavetable
voices and 512 PCI voices. I've searched through that site as being the
obvious place to look, but it's been not at all helpful.
The problem with all of this is that, for my (unusual) application, I
need as many soundfont voices playing at once as possible - 128 might
be a useful minimum. But now I'm confused about what the difference is
between wavetable and PCI voices.
If anyone could shed some light on all of this for me, I'd be hugely
grateful. I'm actually asking this from a Linux point-of-view, but I
suspect that doesn't matter at this stage? I understand that SB has good
Linux support. So all pointers will be welcome.
Thanks, all!
Gerald.
