[linux-audio-user] SB Live (SPDIF), and about fluidsynth rendering

Hello Brian, Friday, April 4, 2003, 11:22:46 PM, you wrote: BR> There's no support for spdif on it, if you need that I'd reccomend the BR> audiophile or another ice1712 card, since you can use the envy24control BR> mixer with those cards to control the spdif in/out. That would be cool, but I don't have the $$$ for an Audiophile at this point. So, is the SB Live SPDIF output totally useless under Linux? Or does it at least mirror what is on the analog output? I want to be able at least to play out WAV/MP3 via SPDIF, if not MIDI. BR> You can use fluidsynth BR> to playback soundfonts from ram, and right now it actually covers more of BR> the complete sf2 spec (having support for realtime modulation BR> control) than the sblive hardware has (which doesn't support realtime BR> effects modulations). How much CPU power does it want? I currently have a Duron 650. Upgrading the CPU would be somewhat costly, and I can't spend much on audio HW right now - so the HW synth, along with the SPDIF, is why I am looking at the Live. Indeed for the final rendering I am ready to use fluidsynth into wav. After all, a final render does not have to be realtime, and a wav is needed anyway to burn in onto a CD. By the way, does fluidsynth support non-realtime rendering (from Rosegarden, into a WAV file) if the CPU is not powerful enough to render it all in realtime? -- Best regards, Mikhail mailto:mr@ramendik.ru