3 Dec
2003
3 Dec
'03
8:11 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:01 pm, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Right, I think I asked the same question about a year ago and
even perhaps a year before that too :)
Excellent... it's probably an "easier" job for you than anyone
else I can think of.
Is anyone
aware of ANY non-OSS tool to load soundfonts into
an SBlive card ?
no. it's a long-long-standing item in my TODO list. If not, would
anyone be interested in looking in to how to
rewrite sfxload so it, at least, uses the native ALSA API ?
i'll start writing it once after ALSA 1.0.0 is released and i'm back
from vacation. but one thing i should mention. even if sfxload is
rewritten to an
ALSA native app, the function wouldn't be changed much. the only
change is that the new one will use ALSA native hwdep device instead
of OSS's device. that's all. a major merit would be that you don't
need to build OSS sequencer emulation (and its setup), though.
That's fine and that's the point. Anyone who wants to use their
SBlive as a synth MUST use OSS and in my case it's the only reason
to load the OSS modules. I'd like to help but I don't know where
to start.
--markc