Help with SoftOSS

Help with SoftOSS

[DAVID BALAZIC]

Hi!

I'm trying to use SoftOSS ( kernel 2.2.9 ), but with no
success yet. The kernel docs are pretty useless.

Is there any FAQ/HOWTO/whatever, that can help ?
Anyone actually using it ?

10x in advance

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Re: Help with SoftOSS

[Jeff Tranter]

I have been able to use it. Briefly what I did was:

- download GUS samples from a site such as
  ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/midia/instruments.tar.gz
- compile the SoftOSS driver as a kernel module
- load  modules using "insmod softoss2"
- test with an application that supports GUS, e.g.

   playmidi -g somefile.mid

Some other notes:

- the default is 32 voices, 32000 samples/sec
- you can configure (at kernel compile time) the number of voices,
  sampling rates etc..
- it slows down the machine significantly (tested on a 166MHz Pentium
   with a SB16 PnP)
- there were errors in playback and some MIDI files did not play at all
   (according to the vendor its still a proof of concept)
- you might want to explore using TImidity as an alternative to get
   the same results (i.e. high quality playback of MIDI files on a non-wavetable
  soundcard). I see significantly better results with this.

On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to use SoftOSS ( kernel 2.2.9 ), but with no
> success yet. The kernel docs are pretty useless.
> 
> Is there any FAQ/HOWTO/whatever, that can help ?
> Anyone actually using it ?

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Re: Help with SoftOSS

[DAVID BALAZIC]

Jeff Tranter wrote about SoftOSS :

>I have been able to use it. Briefly what I did was:
>
>- download GUS samples from a site such as
>  ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/midia/instruments.tar.gz

Silly question , what did you do with them after download ?

>- compile the SoftOSS driver as a kernel module
>- load  modules using "insmod softoss2"
>- test with an application that supports GUS, e.g.
>
>   playmidi -g somefile.mid

What soundcard do you have ?
Mine is SB 64PCI ( es1370.c driver ) .

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David Balazic , student
E-mail   : 1stein@writeme.com     |     living in  sLOVEnija
home page: http://surf.to/stein
Computer: Amiga 1200 + Quantum LPS-340AT
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