12 Mar
2011
12 Mar
'11
6:46 p.m.
On 03/12/2011 04:12 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Batz
<batzman-lau(a)all-electric.com> wrote:
iirc the audigy2 does have an integrated synth, or iow, an integrated
soundfont2 rompler, as most creative soundcards. as such, quality mostly
depends on the particular sf2 file that is loaded
of course, you need afxload to load a sf2 before you throw in any midi
and ear any audio from it ;)
cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Y-ellow Lady and Gentlemen.
OK, it's been a long time in coming but I have an audigy 2. So
basically... How do you get it to actually work?
I've tried lots of distros and to be honest, all of them have problems. So
whilst one of them might actually be better than what I'm using, I have no
idea how to tell. Currently the only thing I found where most things
actually worked is TangoStudio. Though to be honest, I hate gnome. And
Ubuntu for that matter. But the networking works. Most of the audio works.
Although trying to install the linux sampler project failed miserably. And
to be honest, after 3 months of mind numbing research, I'm sick of it all.
That said. I've got this Audigy 2. Jack can see the synth's MIDI input but
apart from that, nothing else. There appears to be no control over any of
it's audio and no software to drive the synth. I did a search but that only
left me wondering if it's usability under linux was in fact a myth. So
before I go any further, I thought I'd poke my head in here and see what the
collective wisdom was.
so, to summarize:
1) it is your belief that the audigy 2 has an onboard synth
2) you've been unable to find any way to use it
is that correct?
i don't really know about (1), but my gut feeling is that you're wrong
(i did a quick google check and i don't see anything to make me thinkg
otherwise). as for (2), linux in general doesn't tend to support the
onboard synths of most soundcards. this sounds bad, but actually, it
isn't and here's why: manufacturers stopped making devices with
onboard synths years ago. not many of them were any good, and the ones
that were (gravis and turtle beach) do have linux support.
the audigy 2 is certainly usable as an audio device, though its
fundamentally crappy design does lead to some issues when you want to
use it for duplex operation (simultaneous playback and capture).
its really unclear from your email what you want to do. how about you
try to describe that in more detail so that people can help you rather
than just tell you that, despite the marketing material you may have
seen, you've got a pretty crappy audio interface :)