On Friday 17 December 2004 04:37 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:21 -0500, John Check wrote: > > I've been pretty happy with what it does but lately the driver has been > > dropping notes and that's unacceptable. I know it'll get fixed, but it'd > > be nice if all my eggs weren't in one basket. > > Can you reproduce this consistently? This is a known bug but no one has > been able to find a good test case. > I'm not doing anything special. It's not out of the realm of possibility I'm not meshing with the controller keyboards velocity curve, but sometimes I also hear some phasing like maybe something is firing twice. > > One of the things about a mature production process is price goes down. > > It's still a 16 bit card and they sell a 24 bit one for less (of course > > that one is missing the AC97 mixer section). > > Yeah the 24 bit SBLive card is completely different and a POS IMHO. The Agreed > Audigy2 is a 24 bit card that retains the good parts of the SBLive (hw > mixing, DSP, wavetable). But it's more expensive. And the 24/96 is not > yet supported in Linux (though it should be soon). > Okay, now see, that would have annoyed me because if I was dropping the extra money I'd probably use 24bit as the justification, and I can get that for less than the difference in price between the audigy and the SBL.. > Lee