Re: sound cards med-high end

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On Saturday 27 March 2004 18:41, Juan Erbes wrote:
> >Ok, first off, the SBLive (5.1) cards don't do midi that well - if at all.
>
> Don't do midi?
> I have a SBlibe, and it works 10 points in midi (depending the soundfont
> that You loads in the memory with sfxload). With a soundfont of high
> quality, from about 40 mb, You can get very relistic instruments.

- From www.alsa-project.org:

Known bugs
- - MIDI on SB live drive not working properly. 
- - wavetable drops notes sometimes. (a good test example wanted.) 
 
The following does not work in SB Live!Platinum: 
 
- - capturing the front panel RCA connectors 
- - front panel midi connectors 
- - IR sensor 

So yes, you get very nice internal software operations - mostly.  However, 
hooking up and "external" midi keyboard is a PITA (pain in the ass).  It will 
show a midi (uart) device, but unlike other cards it will not communicate 
properly with the with the external keyboard.  I have (with much tweaking) 
gotten it to render notes.  And as the site suggested it only did this in 
short bursts and dropped notes like crazy.  The game/midi port only does 8 
bit and the midi data simply overloads the pipe and can't fill the buffer.  
Pair this with latency issues and you have a fairly inoperable set-up.  So 
yes with a lot of finess one can get an external midi device working - 
somewhat.  But not in what I would consider a working and "real-time" manner.  
And I had to patch the kernel for low latency to get what I did working.  
Again, internal software midi is more or less fine.  Using an external 
keyboard is hit or miss IMHO.

Cheers, Curtis.


 


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