On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:01 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Is anyone aware of ANY non-OSS tool to load soundfonts into > > an SBlive card ? > > no. it's a long-long-standing item in my TODO list. Right, I think I asked the same question about a year ago and even perhaps a year before that too :) > > If not, would anyone be interested in looking in to how to > > rewrite sfxload so it, at least, uses the native ALSA API ? > > i'll start writing it once after ALSA 1.0.0 is released and i'm back > from vacation. Excellent... it's probably an "easier" job for you than anyone else I can think of. > but one thing i should mention. even if sfxload is rewritten to an > ALSA native app, the function wouldn't be changed much. the only > change is that the new one will use ALSA native hwdep device instead > of OSS's device. that's all. a major merit would be that you don't > need to build OSS sequencer emulation (and its setup), though. That's fine and that's the point. Anyone who wants to use their SBlive as a synth MUST use OSS and in my case it's the only reason to load the OSS modules. I'd like to help but I don't know where to start. --markc
