On Friday 30 July 2004 05:03 pm, Andrew Dahlin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:23:06 -0700 > > Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Have a question... > > > > I'm trying to move ever towards eliminating Winblows. I have to come up > > with a *bullet proof* method of running a solid midi seq alongside the > > Delta for my fx and live audio processing. > > > > None of the midi apps out there seem to work very well with softsynths > > used for the GM instrument set. Fluidsynth, etc has it's issues and so > > on. I don't own any hardware modules and don't want to if I dont have > > to. I have been using Roland Virtual sound canvas, Yamaha sy-xg, > > wingroove, Edirol Hypercanvas, etc on Win XP with Sonar for this > > function and it works well. > > > > I'm wondering, how might I run a SBlive next to the Delta and not have > > them conflict. I guess I would have to run the SBlive in the OSS layer? > > Then suffer from realtime issues again? Point being in previous > > experimentation, the SBlive with a sound font loaded, at least behaves > > more like an actual piece of hardware...It might play a little nicer > > with Muse or Rosegarden... > > > > R~ > > i have my onboard sound card (ens1371) running at the same time as my > audiophile card. both are using alsa and i run jack ontop of my audiophile. > it's pretty easy to do and i'm not sure why more people don't do it. > Actually, the ens1371 is a particularly bad card for/good example of maintaining sync at the sample level. The (at least the one I have) ens1371 has a bug where the sample rate is one short (or long, I forget) on the capture side. The result is when you play back a large audio file at 44.1 it's not the right length. The difference over an hour is about 2 seconds. > --Andrew