[linux-audio-user] Running 2 soundcards...One Delta1010LT for Jack audio, SBlive5.1 for midi??

[Andrew Dahlin]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:23:06 -0700
Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:

> Have a question...
> 
> I'm trying to move ever towards eliminating Winblows. I have to come up
> with a *bullet proof* method of running a solid midi seq alongside the
> Delta for my fx and live audio processing.
> 
> None of the midi apps out there seem to work very well with softsynths
> used for the GM instrument set. Fluidsynth, etc has it's issues and so
> on. I don't own any hardware modules and don't want to if I dont have
> to. I have been using Roland Virtual sound canvas, Yamaha sy-xg,
> wingroove, Edirol Hypercanvas, etc on Win XP with Sonar for this
> function and it works well.
> 
> I'm wondering, how might I run a SBlive next to the Delta and not have
> them conflict. I guess I would have to run the SBlive in the OSS layer?
> Then suffer from realtime issues again? Point being in previous
> experimentation, the SBlive with a sound font loaded, at least behaves
> more like an actual piece of hardware...It might play a little nicer
> with Muse or Rosegarden...
> 
> R~
> 


i have my onboard sound card (ens1371) running at the same time as my audiophile card. both are using alsa and i run jack ontop of my audiophile. it's pretty easy to do and i'm not sure why more people don't do it. 

--Andrew