I have been able to use it. Briefly what I did was:
- download GUS samples from a site such as
ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/midia/instruments.tar.gz
- compile the SoftOSS driver as a kernel module
- load modules using "insmod softoss2"
- test with an application that supports GUS, e.g.
playmidi -g somefile.mid
Some other notes:
- the default is 32 voices, 32000 samples/sec
- you can configure (at kernel compile time) the number of voices,
sampling rates etc..
- it slows down the machine significantly (tested on a 166MHz Pentium
with a SB16 PnP)
- there were errors in playback and some MIDI files did not play at all
(according to the vendor its still a proof of concept)
- you might want to explore using TImidity as an alternative to get
the same results (i.e. high quality playback of MIDI files on a non-wavetable
soundcard). I see significantly better results with this.
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to use SoftOSS ( kernel 2.2.9 ), but with no
> success yet. The kernel docs are pretty useless.
>
> Is there any FAQ/HOWTO/whatever, that can help ?
> Anyone actually using it ?
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