[linux-audio-user] Do I have a synth? :-/

[Mark Knecht]

Go Cal Arts


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:04:52 -0700 (PDT), Brian Redfern
<bredfern at calarts.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, the only really good bet is to get an sblive card, I got an oem for
> only $24 and the onboard synth works great with alsa. You get the benefit
> of 0 latency for playing back sound fonts, but you also lose out, with
> software synths like fluidsynth its possible to send the soundfonts
> through ladspa plugins, while in hardware this isn't possible. But you can
> mix both togther, so I usually use the hardware for my percussion sounds,
> which screw up the music if they glitch out, and then I can use software
> for stuff I want to put effects on.
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