Re: [Alsa-user] Routing the Emu10k1 wavetable to the rear speakers

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Which sound card you suggest to use in alternative to sblive or audigy 
in the same price range?
I'm looking for a not too expensive but well supported card, with 
hardware mixing support.
I thought that emu10k1 is well supported by alsa and generally linux 
applications...

Bye
Emilio Scalise

Vladimir Mosgalin ha scritto:

>Hi Brian Dunn!
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> On 2006.02.06 at 11:27:10 -0600, Brian Dunn wrote next:
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>>I read somewhere that the rear output DACs on my SBLive Value are
>>superior to the front ones, so my monitors are connected to the rear
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>I'd say that if you definitely hear the difference, you should consider
>buying some other card ASAP. Preferable not the one from creative, they
>don't make good cards. Well, it's not that their cards are bad, but each
>one has some flaws which makes sound quality worse that other cards of
>the same price. They have some good cards in professional line, like
>1212M, but it isn't supported by alsa yet.
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>If you can't hear the difference.. why bother?
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>>out.  I'm using qsynth with jack when i'm focusing on audio, but it
>>seemslike a shame to have that wave table and whopping 13megs of DRAM
>>just sitting there... It would be nice to asfxload some small GM
>>soundfont so i can tinker with ditties without having to run jack (
>>witch is inconvinient when i'm compiling, or have 13 firefox windows
>>and some open office going on ).  It seems there should be some way to
>>route the synth channel to the rear speakers... maybe with an
>>.asoundrc file? has anybody done this?
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>emu10k wavetable synth doesn't need any special routing; also front
>channel is routed to the rear output by default, there is "surround"
>mixer in its past. If you have already unmuted it, you should hear the
>same sound from front and rear output jacks. It doesn't matter whether
>you play pcm sound, use software synth or the hardware one.
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>However, I suggest you to stay away from hardware synth on sb live, it
>sucks. There is something wrong with it, it sounds right in windows, but
>the sound is different with alsa drivers in linux. Try timidity; it can
>use your favorite soundfonts and with the right tweaks it can sound
>quite good. It is also more conservative about memory - it loads only
>samples which are actually used. You can use huge (100-200mb) soundfonts
>and don't think about memory issues.
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>(actually, why would you care about them anyway? Linux has pretty good
>VM subsystem, if you don't use the part of memory that contains
>soundfonts for a while, it gets swapped out and memory for your precious
>firefox windows is freed)
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