[linux-audio-user] SB Live?

[Brian Redfern]

There's no support for spdif on it, if you need that I'd reccomend the
audiophile or another ice1712 card, since you can use the envy24control
mixer with those cards to control the spdif in/out. You can use fluidsynth
to playback soundfonts from ram, and right now it actually covers more of
the complete sf2 spec (having support for realtime modulation
control) than the sblive hardware has (which doesn't support realtime
effects modulations). I approached teh swami soundfont editor's creator
about adding realtime control to effects modulations for sblive and found
out that its doesn't support it, so a person is better off going with
fluidsynth as you can also load as many soundfonts as your system's memory
can handle when you go that route.

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:

> Hello people,
> 
> I am thinking of getting a Sound Blaster Live. But I want to be sure
> that there are Linux drivers supporting its Sound Font hardware synth
> and its S/P DIF digital output.
> 
> So, are there such drivers and of so - which ones?
> 
> The alsa-project.org page on SB Live says "MIDI on SB live drive not
> working properly". Does this mean that Sound Font sytnth will NOT work
> on SB Live?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Mikhail                          mailto:mr at ramendik.ru
> 
>