From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:44:20 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <40BC9644.1040703@superbug.demon.co.uk> References: <200406011358.OAA04488@liam2.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA02961 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:44:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200406011358.OAA04488@liam2.demon.co.uk> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: William Cc: ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org William wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >>William wrote: >> >>>James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Audigy LS driver is now ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. >>>>Get it from http://www.superbug.demon.co.uk/alsa >>> >>>Are you going to work on any other Audigy-series drivers, e.g. Audigy 2 ZS? >>>I'm finding the emu10k1 driver in alsa-driver-1.0.5a has serious problems >>>with random intermittent distortion of the soundfont samples while they are >>>being played on the soundcard's MIDI synthesiser, e.g. using aplaymidi -p 65:0. >>>"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. >> >>I don't have an Audigy 2 ZS, so unless someone donates one, I can't help >>you there. > > > At the moment I also have an Audigy LS (5.1) which seems to have > similar problems to the Audigy 2 ZS. > > >>Can you post to a web site your soundfonts file, and instructions on how >>to use them with the creative cards, I might be able to help. > > > 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 > > Sample MIDI files for piano: http://members.aol.com/sdrodrian/ > > $ aplaymidi -l > Port Client name Port name > 62:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 > 64:0 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) - Rawmidi Audigy MPU-401 (UART) > 64:32 Audigy MPU-401 (UART) - Rawmidi Audigy MPU-401 #2 > 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 > 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1 > 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2 > 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3 > 72:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-0 VirMIDI 1-0 > 73:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-1 VirMIDI 1-1 > 74:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-2 VirMIDI 1-2 > 75:0 Virtual Raw MIDI 1-3 VirMIDI 1-3 > > $ aplaymidi -p 65:0 midi_music_file.mid > > An even better test would be to do some experiments on an Audigy using > Rosegarden 4 0.9.8 for MIDI playback, JACK audio, etc > http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ > > >>I have a cheepo Audigy 2 (old version) that I might be able to reproduce >>your problems on. >> >>I don't work with MIDI much, which is why I have not added MIDI support >>to the Audigy LS driver at the moment. > > > I hope you will add MIDI support; I think it would be a great improvement. > > William > > I have played some .mid files now, but I have not noticed any problems with my Audigy 2. When I downloaded the fonts file, mine had a different name to yours. Yours: WST25FStein_00Aug14.SF2 Mine: WST25FStein_00Sep22.SF2 Can you provide me with a .mid file that shows the problems and is easy to reproduce the problems? Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------- 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