Re: [Rosegarden-user] sound card

[Brendon O. <bre...@re...>]

>
>> The "new" one, described as "Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit" on the box ha=
s
>> no joystick port, doesn't use the emu10k driver and no on-board synth
>> (some are also marked 7.1/6.1/5.1)

> No on-board synth at all?  Not even with, say, the emu10k2 driver?

Not that I could find.  I do recall that it required the snd-ca0106 modul=
e
(similar to the Audigy LS).  The card model I have is SB0410.

I just looked at the soundcard list on the alsa-project site to refresh m=
y
memory - it does show the card as having MIDI I/O but there's definitely
no port for connecting an external device.  I thought maybe it would at
least have an on-board synth - I'm pretty sure at the time that the
relevant sequencer modules failed to load with "no such device"-type
errors and sxfload refused to load any soundfont, so rightly (or wrongly)
concluded it didn't.

I don't have the references now, At the time I tried this card, google
turned up an exchange of messages somewhere (don't recall where) between
some people grumbling about having been "taken in" by the lack of midi on
this card.  Within a few days I turned up the 2 5.1 cards which I now hav=
e
so gave up on the newer "24bit" card as a lost cause...  There's nothing
wrong with the card in itself - it's just I particularly wanted the
external port (and stupidly, didn't bother to confirm it's presence befor=
e
I bought it).  Que sera...

I'm not sure what the "MIDI I/O" refers to on the ALSA page - and I'm not
really inclined to play with it some more since I've got a perfectly
working replacement.

Just thought I'd pass on the experience in case anyone else feels like
trying a SB Live 24bit card.

Cheers,

- Brendon.