23 Nov
2014
23 Nov
'14
8:04 a.m.
This is the first time posting to the mailing list, I appreciate any help that is given. I
have a 2 soundcard configuration: An SB live and Gina from Echo audio. The Gina only
provides audio, which is the main card I wish to use for routing my audio signals. The
other card is an SB live intended for using the midi interface (MPU 401 or something to
that effect), and to load a soundfont into the cards internal synthesizer. My question is,
how do I use the SB live's soundfont synthesizer capabilities and route it to the Gina
for audio playback. I'm using Jack and do not know how to do this. I'm wondering
if it is even possible. I do not want to use the SB live's audio output jack just to
hear the soundfont I loaded. I would like the Gina to handle all audio connections. Thank
you again and I appreciate any help with this issue. Let me know if more information is
needed.
25 Nov
25 Nov
7:09 a.m.
[Michael Reid]
The other card is an SB live intended for using the
midi interface
(MPU 401 or something to that effect), and to load a soundfont into
the cards internal synthesizer. My question is, how do I use the SB
live's soundfont synthesizer capabilities and route it to the Gina
for audio playback. I'm using Jack and do not know how to do this.
Connecting via S/PDIF should be the easiest way if the two cards
allow such connections and signal routing.
Alternatively, it may be possible to use the SB's mixer controls to
route the synth output to the SB's digital "capture" stream and use
that as a second input device within Jack. You will get extra latency
on the synth output so for live playing this is not ideal at all.
Or you could use a software synth instead: the first thing I would try
in your place.
Cheers,
Tim
10:28 a.m.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:09:03 +0100 (CET)
Tim Goetze <tim(a)quitte.de> wrote:
Or you could use a software synth instead: the first
thing I would try
in your place.
I doubt that using a sound card as soundfont player in combination with
a second sound card for audio is a good I idea. I would do the same as
Tim. Take a look at fluidsynth, fluidsynth-dssi and qsynth.
11:18 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 10:28:00 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:09:03 +0100 (CET)
Tim Goetze <tim(a)quitte.de> wrote:
I've tried to do that sort of thing a couple of years ago, with an Audigy, and its
analog outputs plugged to the Delta101LT. In my experience it was not worth the effort,
the Audigy wavetable memory was too small to hold FluidR3, and the GM fonts that fit in
sounded poor IMHO... all in all you're much more flexible with a software
soundfont/gig/sfz/whatever player.
My 2 €cents,
Edgar
Or you could use a software synth instead: the
first thing I would try
in your place.
I doubt that using a sound card as soundfont player in combination with
a second sound card for audio is a good I idea. I would do the same as
Tim. Take a look at fluidsynth, fluidsynth-dssi and qsynth. _______________________________________________
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11:42 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Edgar Aichinger <edogawa(a)aon.at> wrote:
[...]
I've tried to do that sort of thing a couple of
years ago, with an Audigy, and
its analog outputs plugged to the Delta101LT. In my experience it was not
worth the effort, the Audigy wavetable memory was too small to hold
FluidR3, and the GM fonts that fit in sounded poor IMHO... all in all you're
much more flexible with a software soundfont/gig/sfz/whatever player.
Uhm... IIRC, Live! and later stream samples from host RAM using DMA.
(That's how they support multi-open on the audio API side as well.) I
think AWE64 was the last card I used that had on-board waveform memory
- and I'm not even sure about that. I definitely remember adding a
pair of SIMM modules to my AWE32 card, though. :-)
But either way, I don't quite see the point in using a hardware
sampleplayer these days either.
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11:55 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 11:42:16 schrieb David Olofson:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Edgar Aichinger
<edogawa(a)aon.at> wrote:
[...]
It's so long ago I don't remember details, but I'm quite sure I I had to use a
program called sfxload or similar, to upload the sound bank to the card, whatever that
meant.
I never managed to fill it with FluidR3 (apart from it taking a horribly long time before
failing, or leaving me with a half-filled sample bank, not sure anymore).
I've tried to do that sort of thing a couple
of years ago, with an Audigy, and
its analog outputs plugged to the Delta101LT. In my experience it was not
worth the effort, the Audigy wavetable memory was too small to hold
FluidR3, and the GM fonts that fit in sounded poor IMHO... all in all you're
much more flexible with a software soundfont/gig/sfz/whatever player.
Uhm... IIRC, Live! and later stream samples from host RAM using DMA.
(That's how they support multi-open on the audio API side as well.) I
think AWE64 was the last card I used that had on-board waveform memory
- and I'm not even sure about that. I definitely remember adding a
pair of SIMM modules to my AWE32 card, though. :-)
But either way, I don't quite see the point in using a hardware
sampleplayer these days either.
3:08 p.m.
Edgar Aichinger wrote:> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014, 11:42:16 schrieb David
Olofson:
The samples are copied into unswappable RAM that can be accessed by the
card (not all chips support the full 32-bit PCI address range, and
nowadays 4 GB isn't even the full range).
Regards,
Clemens
On Tue, Nov
25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Edgar Aichinger <edogawa(a)aon.at> wrote:
I had to use a program called sfxload or similar, to upload the sound bank to
the card, whatever that meant. [...] the Audigy wavetable memory was too small
to hold
FluidR3, and the GM fonts that fit in sounded poor IMHO...
Uhm... IIRC, Live! and later stream samples from host RAM using DMA.
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