Re: [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver.

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:58:38 +0100,
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

check /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD* file whether all instruments are
loaded.  you can see there the memory usage,  number of instruments,
etc.


Takashi


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