28 May
2003
28 May
'03
3:10 p.m.
Hi Ron,
The thread started with an inquiry about which soundcards support Soundfont on
their onboard synth chip, so it was perhaps not exactly what you thought it
was.
Though what you ask, syncing synths to software apps is probably involved :)
The sb-live card (and it's siblings, ancestors and children) is in essence a
low cost samplingsynth. By putting a bunch of these into a computer case I
guess you could construct a fairly well working "external" synth.
As for syncing, they would be controlled by midi, I'm not sure what you where
aiming at here exactly, all synths do that don't they?
Some of the cards have sp-dif, some of the newer even have firewire (or
sb-firewire whatever that means (probably that it's broken)) so in theory
they would have pretty good soundquality as well as sync possibilities...
Later,
Robert
Hi,
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread. Are you
guys syncing external synths to software apps? If yes,
how, what applications, protocols and hardware?
ron
--- Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> wrote:
> > The only
> > concern here is that Fluidsynth will consume CPU
> resources which
> > the hardware synth won't.
>
> And the hardware synth 'just works', as long as you
> have sfxload
> installed. You could turn a very low spec machine
> into a flexible
> MIDI sound module this way. We've kept our SB Live
> as a second card
> for just this job, even though we have a much better
> card for
> recording audio now.
>
28 May
28 May
3:31 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Audigy 6.1 platinum and Linux
Hi,
As for syncing, they would be controlled by midi,
I'm not sure what you where
aiming at here exactly, all synths do that don't
they?
The challange I have is finding something that's
generating MIDI clock or converting MTC to MIDI clock.
I've got a Korg Triton which only responds to MIDI
clock.
I think jlcooper has an MTC to MIDI clock convertor,
PPsomethin-or-other. I'll check up on that.
Of course I've got the jlcooper datasync2 but I don't
think it's gonna do the job. I don't have the manual.
And I've got an ADAT BRC but that doesn't look like
it's gonna do the job.
It seems like this conversion would be an alsa-seq
task. My google searches return lots of design
considerations for the problem but I don't see
anything implemented. Well, perhaps it's time to look
at muse which looks like a pretty decent solution in
and of itself but is overkill for my immediate needs.
Anyway, I'll step out of this thread. I'm way off
topic.
Thanks,
ron
Some of the cards have sp-dif, some of the newer
even have firewire (or
sb-firewire whatever that means (probably that it's
broken)) so in theory
they would have pretty good soundquality as well as
sync possibilities...
Later,
Robert
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Hi,
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread. Are
you
guys syncing external synths to software apps? If
yes,
how, what applications, protocols and hardware?
ron
--- Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> wrote:
> > The only
> > concern here is that Fluidsynth will consume
CPU
> resources which
> > the hardware synth won't.
>
> And the hardware synth 'just works', as long as
you
> have sfxload
> installed. You could turn a very low spec
machine
> into a flexible
> MIDI sound module this way. We've kept our SB
Live
> as a second card
> for just this job, even though we have a much
better
> card for
> recording audio now.
>
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