[ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

[ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

I added a new interface to ALSA 1.0.2 for handling the SoundFont file
without OSS sequencer emulation.  The latest awesfx package,
ver.0.5.0, includes a new program "asfxload" for that.  As you imagine
easily, it's the ALSA-native sfxload program.

It works just like sfxload but loads via ALSA-native hwdep device.
No new features, no new bugs :)

Also, awesfx is now packaged with GNU auto-tools.  You can use
configure script like others.

The web page is at

	http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awedrv.html#Utils

The tarball is at

	http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.5.tar.gz


ciao,

Takashi


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Re: [ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

[Thierry Vignaud]

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> writes:

> I added a new interface to ALSA 1.0.2 for handling the SoundFont file
> without OSS sequencer emulation.  The latest awesfx package,
> ver.0.5.0, includes a new program "asfxload" for that.  As you imagine
> easily, it's the ALSA-native sfxload program.
> 
> It works just like sfxload but loads via ALSA-native hwdep device.
> No new features, no new bugs :)
> 
> Also, awesfx is now packaged with GNU auto-tools.  You can use
> configure script like others.
> 
> The web page is at
> 
> 	http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awedrv.html#Utils
> 
> The tarball is at
> 
> 	http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.5.tar.gz

tv@ke ~/rpm $ lftpget http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.5.tar.gz  
get: Access failed: 404 Not Found (~iwai/awesfx-0.5.5.tar.gz) 

correct url seems to be:
     http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/awesfx-0.5.0.tar.gz



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Re: [ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

[segfault]

It seems that I'm the only guy who is trying to use an AWE64
without OSS emulation.

I've tried "asfxload" with my AWE64 and it doesn't work. Probably
this is due to my ignorance since I've only a basic understanding
of PCM playback and none about MIDI (with ALSA I mean).

The question is the following :
I load all the ALSA modules, both for the sequencer and PCM.
In fact the ouput of "pmidi -l" gives:
-----------------
Port Client name Port name
64:0 Rawmidi 0 - MPU-401 (UART) 0-0 MPU-401 (UART) 0-0
65:0 Emu8000 WaveTable Emu8000 Port 0
65:1 Emu8000 WaveTable Emu8000 Port 1
65:2 Emu8000 WaveTable Emu8000 Port 2
65:3 Emu8000 WaveTable Emu8000 Port 3
66:0 OPL3 FM synth OPL3 FM Port
-----------------
Then, when I try to load the soundfont with

./asfxload synthgm.sbk

I get :
No Emux synth hwdep device is found.

I've verified that the only hwdep activated on my PC is
an OPL3. Why the EMU8k synth hwdep device is not active on
my comp. even after I've load all the relevant modules ?

I didn't like to bother the devel ML with such kind of problems
but there is no documentation about "sound font loading without
OSS emulation".
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Re: [ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

[Florian Schmidt]

On Wed,  4 Feb 2004 09:42:05 +0100
"segfault" <segfault@email.it> wrote:

> I've verified that the only hwdep activated on my PC is
> an OPL3. Why the EMU8k synth hwdep device is not active on
> my comp. even after I've load all the relevant modules ?
> 
> I didn't like to bother the devel ML with such kind of problems
> but there is no documentation about "sound font loading without
> OSS emulation".

If you find out, please add this info to the alsa wiki:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=SoundFontHandling
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=asfxload

Thanks,
Flo


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Re: [ANN] ALSA-native sfxload program

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed,  4 Feb 2004 09:42:05 +0100,
segfault wrote:
> 
> It seems that I'm the only guy who is trying to use an AWE64
> without OSS emulation.

are you using 1.0.2 or later driver?
asfxload doesn't work with the older driver.


Takashi


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