RE: [linux-audio-user] Do I have a synth? :-/ - Linux-audio-user

21 Oct 2004

Good point. The other thing you lose comes from your "but you can mix both 
together", which should be completed as "if you have an analog mixing 
console"! :-) If you have to add a console to the $24 of the SB, then it 
becomes a different thing! :-) Plus I'm trying to save physical space and 
build a small studio I can take from place to place (can't record drums in 
my flat for instance).

Because of this, I think I'm more inclined to big CPU and digital mixing. 
The fact that you can do things such as route soft synth sounds to ladspa 
plugins or route different digital audio outputs to the same soundcard 
(thanks to Jack) is a kind of dream come true, I think we all tend to assume 
these possibilities as natural but they are a kind of miracle 
flexibility-wise.

Cheers,

Alex

...
 Yeah, the only really good bet is to get an sblive
card, I got an oem for
only $24 and the onboard synth works great with alsa. You get the benefit
of 0 latency for playing back sound fonts, but you also lose out, with
software synths like fluidsynth its possible to send the soundfonts
through ladspa plugins, while in hardware this isn't possible. But you can
mix both togther, so I usually use the hardware for my percussion sounds,
which screw up the music if they glitch out, and then I can use software
for stuff I want to put effects on. 
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