some advice About Wave Table cards

some advice About Wave Table cards

[SRV]

Hello!
I need your advice and comments from your experience.
I want to buy a new sound card to replace my "old but reliable yet" SB16.
I would like to replace it with a sound card capable of using wave table
for Instrument synthesis for midi songs, and the Linux driver should be
fully functional (wave, opl, recording ok, etc.)
And I have 3 choices from my local computer retailer:
1.- SB AWE 128 pci card
2.- SB PCI 128 Ensoniq chipset ct4810
3.- SB 512 PCI
 Which one has better support in Linux?
I am avoiding the SB Live, since the drivers are alpha and has some bugs.
Apparently the SB 512 uses the same emu10k chipset as the SB Live?
thanks for your attention and any feedback.
bye,

-Herman

Re: some advice About Wave Table cards

[paco]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, SRV wrote:

> And I have 3 choices from my local computer retailer:
> 1.- SB AWE 128 pci card
> 2.- SB PCI 128 Ensoniq chipset ct4810
> 3.- SB 512 PCI

>  Which one has better support in Linux?
> I am avoiding the SB Live, since the drivers are alpha and has some bugs.
> Apparently the SB 512 uses the same emu10k chipset as the SB Live?

Yes... the SBPCI512 uses the same chipset as the Live!.  Therefore it uses
the same driver and has the same bugs as the Live!.  If you've already
decided to stay away from the SB Live!, then you should stay away from the
PCI512.

Althoug... I'm using a PCI512 and I really don't have too many complaints.
The MIDI doesn't work on it, but I make my music with real instruments, so
it doesn't bother me at all.

-Paco

Re: some advice About Wave Table cards

[Bill Nottingham]

paco@hydrofunk.org (paco@hydrofunk.org) said: 
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, SRV wrote:
> > And I have 3 choices from my local computer retailer:
> > 1.- SB AWE 128 pci card
> > 2.- SB PCI 128 Ensoniq chipset ct4810
> > 3.- SB 512 PCI
> 
> >  Which one has better support in Linux?

Well, if you're actually looking for wavetable support, the SB 512
(using the same chipset as the SB Live!) is the only one of those
three that actually *has* a hardware wavetable synthsizer on it.

The emu10ki synth on the SB 512 is supported by ALSA, IIRC.

Bill