-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 18:41, Juan Erbes wrote:
Ok, first off, the SBLive (5.1) cards don't do midi that well - if at all.
Don't do midi? I have a SBlibe, and it works 10 points in midi (depending the soundfont that You loads in the memory with sfxload). With a soundfont of high quality, from about 40 mb, You can get very relistic instruments.
- From www.alsa-project.org: Known bugs - - MIDI on SB live drive not working properly. - - wavetable drops notes sometimes. (a good test example wanted.) The following does not work in SB Live!Platinum: - - capturing the front panel RCA connectors - - front panel midi connectors - - IR sensor So yes, you get very nice internal software operations - mostly. However, hooking up and "external" midi keyboard is a PITA (pain in the ass). It will show a midi (uart) device, but unlike other cards it will not communicate properly with the with the external keyboard. I have (with much tweaking) gotten it to render notes. And as the site suggested it only did this in short bursts and dropped notes like crazy. The game/midi port only does 8 bit and the midi data simply overloads the pipe and can't fill the buffer. Pair this with latency issues and you have a fairly inoperable set-up. So yes with a lot of finess one can get an external midi device working - somewhat. But not in what I would consider a working and "real-time" manner. And I had to patch the kernel for low latency to get what I did working. Again, internal software midi is more or less fine. Using an external keyboard is hit or miss IMHO. Cheers, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! If pro is the opposite of con, then the opposite of progress must be congress! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZt6E7CQBg4DqqCwRAtj8AJ43++4eDubaEJSWEQ5/TlwYQ0ZNiQCglAAi OZGQHoS0DuzIlHiQ1ouubLU= =PnmO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----