Another possiblity is to get a cheap sblive value oem card (which go for about $30) and then use smurf and the awe tools to play samples directly from the card, I've been doing that and get very low latency when I'm triggering soundfonts from the card and smurf lets me edit them directly from the card, I'm in the process of upgrading my c programming skills so I can help add emu10k hardware support to swami (since its author no longer has a machine with an sblive or awe card). http://www.brianredfern.org On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, James Greenwood wrote: > Tim Orford wrote: > > > > > What about other options? I could get rid of the sampler altogether - > > > > > then to get the same number of outputs I'd need to upgrade my soundcard - > > > > you cant mix internally? > > Probably I can, but I have outboard effects that I like to apply on a > per-channel basis. I wonder if it's possible to use the outputs and > inputs on my M-Audio 2496 as effects sends and returns to incorporpate a > couple of outboard effects while mixing internally? That might sway me. > > > > So what about ones that require a different way of working? Maybe it's > > > time to learn a new way of working! > > > > yeh sampling duties can be performed by all kinds of apps > > these days depending on what you want to do exactly. Also, it > > seems people have been put off writing a sampler due to US patent > > problems. > > That's a shame about the patent issue... > > > have you tried the soundfont editor/player Swami/Fluidsynth? > > Maybe that will help you become less reliant on your hardware, > > but i wouldnt sell it just yet! :-) > > Thanks for the tip! > > > > > cheers > > -- > > Tim Orford > > -- > James Greenwood | jamesg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > If you put in the work, the results will look after themselves > -- Nick Leeson's mother >
