From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Subject: Re: [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:46:45 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200406011546.QAA05204@liam2.demon.co.uk> References: Return-path: Received: from liam2.demon.co.uk (liam2.demon.co.uk [158.152.170.203]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA04054 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:43:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: > William wrote: > "Random intermittent distortion" means, e.g. the sound during MIDI playback > becomes "muffled" for a minute or two and then returns to normal sound > quality, or the sound wrongly becomes mono for a few seconds, and then > returns to stereo. > Also, it seems emu10k1 does not load soundfonts correctly, > especially if you ever use any really large 25MB soundfonts. > >> The 25MB piano soundfont is here: >> http://www.wstco.com/pianosounds/freesoundfont.htm >> Please note the author Warren has told me his soundfont is not re-distributable. >> >> ALSA soundfont loading: asfxload WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 >> ALSA OSS-mode soundfont loading: sfxload WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 > > check /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* file whether all instruments are > loaded. you can see there the memory usage, number of instruments, > etc. Experiment 1: ------------- Load the 25MB piano soundfont file: $ asfxload /tmp/WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64 Allocated Voices: 0 Memory Size: 134217728 Memory Available: 108226960 Allocated Blocks: 45 SoundFonts: 1 Instruments: 4078 Samples: 44 Locked Instruments: 4078 Locked Samples: 44 $ wget http://members.aol.com/myworks/r-c-no02.mid $ aplaymidi -p 65:0 r-c-no02.mid In this case, you can hear music from the Audigy 2 ZS. Experiment 2: ------------- Load the manufacturer's Standard GM Midi file: $ asfxload /etc/synthgm.sbk $ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64 Allocated Voices: 0 Memory Size: 134217728 Memory Available: 134213632 Allocated Blocks: 1 SoundFonts: 1 Instruments: 569 Samples: 152 Locked Instruments: 569 Locked Samples: 152 $ wget http://members.aol.com/myworks/r-c-no02.mid $ aplaymidi -p 65:0 r-c-no02.mid In this case, there is total silence from the Audigy 2 ZS. William ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click