RE: [Alsa-user] emu10k midi problems

[Juan L. <co...@re...>]

>> Hello, I have a sblive value and I've been trying to use the sequencer.
>I've tried the latest relases and in all of them i've found the following
>problems:
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>> -Noise in the synth: With many soundfont patches, using the synth, the
>card starts doing an horrible cracking noise when many notes are played
>simultaneously, i tried changing mixing volumes without
>> success.
>> -Chorus/Reverb: Is it yet possible to map dsp code to a controller? Also,
>is reverb implemented? if not.. is it possible to use the reverb code that
>comes with the windows sblive software CD?
>> -Unstability: It crashes randomly, and the sound starts popping when
>very small fragment sizes are used, I'd like to say that this is a problem
>of my computer, but it doesnt happen when using an ensoniq 1371
>> card with the same configuration.
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>Well, the old problem I reported to the list (Mr. Takashi Iwai maybe can 
>remember) about really bad MIDI playing experience with the emu10k1 
>internal synth, despite what software I use to play and preemptible or 
>not preemptible kernel I'm using (actually 2.4.16) and ALSA 0.9.10, with 
>the synthetizer eating notes at random, is still an issue.
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>I know we're getting there, and I thank you all programmers for your 
>effort and time spent to help the rest of us. Thank you very much.
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Oh yes, you're right. I had that problem of the synthetizer eating notes too! I'm writing a sequencer
program, and I thought the problem was mine for a while. That was a real pain :)
Well.. all we can do for now is to hope that when alsa goes kernel mainstream, by then the the development
should be much more user-oriented and less api-defining.

Juan Linietsky