Y-ellow Leigh 'n' all.
Thanks for that.
At 06:23 PM 3/13/2011 +1100, Leigh Dyer wrote:
Is there a reason you can't use software? Fluidsynth/Qsynth is
efficient, sounds great, and will load any SoundFont file that you
might've wanted to load on to your sound card's synth. I regularly use
LinuxSampler, too, for Gigastudio and SFZ files.
For the record. No. Just that I've not been able to get this stuff running
to any kind of level where I can even begin to test it's efficacy. Someone
on this list suggested that the emu10k1 would be an alternative some months
back so I've hedged my bets as it were.
Also for the record. The emu10k1 synth chip onboard the CreatiFlabs Audigy
2 card is NOT a ROMpler. It is a sample playback engine. AKA a Wave Table
Synth. And a relatively sophisticated one. In this case, it uses system RAM
not ROM, and is also the basis of most of the EMU synths and samplers of
that time. (probably still is.) Although the SoundFont format leaves
something to be desired, it is usable and relatively robust. Note that this
one chip also handles FX processing, routing, mixing. Has digital I/Os, SVF
filters on every channel as well as DMA and it's own PCI interface.
An advantage of using dedicated hardware such as this is that it is
relatively bullet proof. Removing at least 4 layers of software from the
equation. (7 if you're also using a java based VM as your front-end.)
Removing such a house of cards from a live performance always makes for a
better, more confident gig IMHO. :)
However, this is linux we're talking about so one might expect things to be
a whole lot more stable. So far, my experience has been that it is not.
Having said that. I re-installed KXstudio again last night and it seems to
be actually working. Albeit, dog slow. In fact it's behavior in general is
altogether different to the first time I tried installing it. Still,
although I can bring Linux Sampler up, Jack won't connect to it. It won't
see the ENVY24/DSP124 sound card either and certainly won't see the
CreatiFlabs card. Though ALSA MIDI will see both. And the emu10K1 synth as
well. It insists on using something called pulse audio. Whatever that is?
But I recall someone saying that if pulse exists, nothing else will work.
So I'm guessing it's time to move on.
Anyway, the whole thing is so slow you'd think it were running on a old
pentium 90. I suspect it didn't even install the RT kernel. Judging by the
number of Xruns reported.
So if there's a distro where all this actually works. Please let me know.
I'm all ears.
Also, where can one get a suitable GM sample set to load into Linux sampler
assuming I ever see it working? Need some banks to test it with. This is
supposed to be automatic with things like an emu10K1 but evidently you need
to fend for yourself with linux sampler?
Thanks in advance.
Be absolutely icebox.
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