Re: soundfont question

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Edgar Aichinger wrote:> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 11:42:16 schrieb David Olofson:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Edgar Aichinger <edogawa@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> [...] the Audigy wavetable memory was too small to hold
>>> FluidR3, and the GM fonts that fit in sounded poor IMHO...
>>
>> Uhm... IIRC, Live! and later stream samples from host RAM using DMA.
>
> I had to use a program called sfxload or similar, to upload the sound bank to
> the card, whatever that meant.

The samples are copied into unswappable RAM that can be accessed by the
card (not all chips support the full 32-bit PCI address range, and
nowadays 4 GB isn't even the full range).


Regards,
Clemens
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