[linux-audio-user] opl3 through LADSPA

[Juan Linietsky]

Steve Harris wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:12:12PM -0700, Brian Dunn wrote:
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>>does anyone know how i can route my opl3 synth through
>>LADSPA plugins?  just a pointer in the right direction
>>would be great.
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>Is the OPL£ on a soundcard? If so you probably need to set the record
>input to be "mix" or "master" or similar, and use something like jack-rack
>to process the soundcard record input.
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>- Steve
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Some soundcards, that I know, will let you record the OPL3 synth
individually without the need of using the master.. however this applies 
to the entire synth, not the individual channels. Like the crystal/cmi 
or the old soundblaster AWE64.

On the other hand, the OPL3 synth is a digital FM synth and it has been 
fully reverse engineered to the bit, so 100% accurate software emulation 
is possible and exists. Opensource implementations could be used and 
adapted to be run as jack/alsa clients. These can be taken from MAME, 
DosBOX or DosEMU, for example.

Cheers!

Juan Linietsky