[LAU] Audigy too

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd at wootangent.net> wrote:
> On 13/03/11 17:19, Batz wrote:
>>
>> It's a shame though. I was rather hoping to be able to say that I used
>> linux exclusively. Rather than the risk of giving free press to some
>> less deserving corporation or other.
>
> 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.
>
> I actually had a SoundBlaster Live, with a similar on-board synth, in my
> studio PC until very recently, but I never used the synth -- it's just not
> worth the hassle when I can fire up Qsynth, or a Fluidsynth plugin within a
> sequencer like Qtractor, to do the same thing.

absolutely. its very hard for me to understand why someone would want
to use the rompler in their soundcard for this purpose. batz - do you
have a particular reason to want to do this?

(oh, and apologies for my earlier misinformed comments on the presence
of a rompler in the audigy 2)

--p