In Windows, the cause of a choppy external synth, as well as an internal one for that matter is another device moving into the sound or speech card/external synthesizer's memory range or IRQ. I suppose a similar thing might be happening in Linux, but I don't yet know how to address it in Linux. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darragh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:47 PM Subject: Re: Software synths I use to like hardware synths until I got this apollo 2. I use to think they were very responsive, easy to listen to and handy for setting up machines with strange sound cards. This apollo is a pain in the face. The volume dial has been dodgy since I got it, If the computer is under any kind of preasure it sounds choppy and in Windows its a desaster. I'd gladly fork out the money if I could find a decent hardware synth which was easy to listen to: was powered by USB, was very responsive and had an external volume control. If any one knows of such a beast please let me know. Darragh _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
