Scott Webster Wood wrote:
  # aplaymidi -l
 16:0    Ensoniq AudioPCI                ES1371 
This is the card's external MIDI port; to actually use it, you'd have
to connect a gameport/MIDI adapter and some MIDI device.
  I was hoping that since it had a hardware-based
wavetable 
It has not; the Windows driver has a software synthesizer.
Only the cards with the Emu10k1 chip (any "Live!" model except "24bit"
and "7.1", and some Audigys) have a hardware synthesizer.
Regards,
Clemens