27 Nov
2003
27 Nov
'03
noon
Joerg Anders wrote:
Hi all!
I used to play MIDI with AWE-64 with 24 MB RAM extention.
So I could use the SF2 soundfonts.
Unfortunately, the AWE-64 requires an EISA slot.
Could please enybody recommend a PCI successor of the
AWE64 which allows loading of SF2 soundfonts.
Please do not recommend Audigy! This is a lie! The
Audigy ALSA driver accidentally drops some
tones. This is a known bug, but
apparently nobody is willing to fix this
See.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+…
Furthermore it ignores reverbation and
chorus instructions.
Please do not recommend FluidSynth. To avoid
misundersandings: Actually FluidSynth is a good
software. But it produces wrog envelopes for
strings and clarinets. The envelops are
like xylophone (or so ...)
I alreay mentioned this problem on this list.
But without success.
Will a plain old SoundBlaster Live! Platinum do you for this? For SF2
soundfonts you don't need 5.1 sorround sound or anything like that. I
have an old SBLive! Value and it does that great! Then again I don't use
it much for MIDI jobs, and only have sued a couple soundfonts on it with
ALSA.