From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH] Audigy LS driver ready for inclusion into alsa-driver. Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:31:25 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <40BC8720.3090801@superbug.demon.co.uk> <200406011358.OAA04488@liam2.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from Cantor.suse.de (cantor.suse.de [195.135.220.2]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA03853 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:31:33 +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: James Courtier-Dutton , ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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