Comment # 40 on bug 965328 from Jogchum Reitsma

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #39)

> SB has the wavetable support, so it's no big merit of using timidity?

Yes, I learned that from Raymond in comment #12 in 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94165

> 
> Also, you can start timidity with the second substream (hw:0,0,1), so that
> it won't conflict with PA.  The device name can be specified via --output
> option or TIMIDITY_PCM_DEVICE env variable.

Will timidity then 
- use pulseaudio instead of going direct to the hardware, or
- take another subdevice on the SB, after PA has grabbed the first subdevice?