[linux-audio-user] MIDI keyboard

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Mar 14 18:31:59 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:13 -0100, Gilles Degottex wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2005 21:54, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 23:17 -0100, Gilles Degottex wrote:
> > > I recently did a "MIDI linux box". A Suse installed on a minimal hardware 
> > > configuration. There is everything needed to transform MIDI events in to 
> > > beautiful sounds with Fluidsynth (I use a SB live).
> > 
> > Why would you use Fluidsynth instead of the EMU wavetable synth on the
> > SBLive?  They should be feature-equivalent.
> because I can't mix to sounds from 2 different midi bank with the wave table

Should work.  The hardware synth on emu10k1/2 cards is actually two
synths.  Unfortunately I don't have a HOWTO.

> and is there reverb on the sb live ?
> 

Not yet.  But someone is working on one.

Really, I just wanted to get an idea of which driver limitations are
keeping people from using it, so the driver can be improved.

Lee




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