[LAU] XG Sound Generator Alternatives

[David Baron]

I would love to upgrade my old PIII clunker. Apparently, all the better 
motherboards lack ISA slots nowadays.

The older speakerphone modem I have in a slot can be cheaply replaced with a 
PCI version of the same ilk.

My problem is my old Yamaha sw60xg sound card. This is a rusty, trusty MIDI 
sound generator with audio DSP (no audio interface to the computer). It can be 
made to work on anything using mpu401, no IRQ, no DMA, no problems. Can be 
controlled using the old XGedit run with WINE. Decent sounds and I have many 
mixes based on this.

Yamaha's stuff is too proprietary, closed, for alsa support. Their sw100xg is 
still a fantastic PCI audio/MIDI card but no alsa support. The sw60xg did not 
need it.

So what alternatives might I have. (A quad-core screamer might run virtual-
instruments OK.) The same sounds are available on old serial port versions 
from Yamaha but there must be something better around in 2010!