[LAU] soundfont question

[Clemens Ladisch]

Edgar Aichinger wrote:> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 11:42:16 schrieb David Olofson:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Edgar Aichinger <edogawa at aon.at> wrote:
>>> [...] the Audigy wavetable memory was too small to hold
>>> FluidR3, and the GM fonts that fit in sounded poor IMHO...
>>
>> Uhm... IIRC, Live! and later stream samples from host RAM using DMA.
>
> I had to use a program called sfxload or similar, to upload the sound bank to
> the card, whatever that meant.

The samples are copied into unswappable RAM that can be accessed by the
card (not all chips support the full 32-bit PCI address range, and
nowadays 4 GB isn't even the full range).


Regards,
Clemens