[linux-audio-user] Recommendatio wanted

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Joerg Anders wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>I used to play MIDI with AWE-64 with 24 MB RAM extention.
>
>So I could use the SF2 soundfonts.
>Unfortunately, the AWE-64 requires an EISA slot.
>
>Could please enybody recommend a PCI successor of the
>AWE64 which allows loading of SF2 soundfonts.
>
>Please do not recommend Audigy! This is a lie! The
>Audigy ALSA driver accidentally  drops some
>tones.  This is a known bug, but
>apparently nobody is willing to fix this
>
>See.
>
>http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Soundblaster+Audigy+Platinum&chip=Audigy&module=emu10k1
>
>Furthermore it ignores reverbation and
>chorus instructions.
>
>Please do not recommend FluidSynth. To avoid
>misundersandings: Actually FluidSynth is a good
>software. But it produces wrog envelopes for
>strings and clarinets. The envelops are
>like xylophone (or so ...)
>
>I alreay mentioned this problem on this list.
>But without success.
>
>
>
>  
>
Will a plain old SoundBlaster Live! Platinum do you for this? For SF2 
soundfonts you don't need 5.1 sorround sound or anything like that. I 
have an old SBLive! Value and it does that great! Then again I don't use 
it much for MIDI jobs, and only have sued a couple soundfonts on it with 
ALSA.