Re: [Rosegarden-user] Suggestion

[Brett M. <idr...@ch...>]

Richard Cooper wrote:

> So probably the best you can do is buy a new sound card and pray for 
> the best.  Just don't get a 24-bit SB Live!, half of what's printed on 
> the box is a total lie.  "64 audio channel playback with independent 
> sample rates" and "sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 
> 44.1, 48 and 96kHz"...  The thing has no hardware mixing and won't do 
> anything besides 48 and 96 kHz.  Creative needs to be sued.

For someone new to Linux audio and ALSA, I'd recommend something like 
the M-Audio 2496 -- it's only $99, so you don't have to invest a lot, 
and provides good sound and MIDI support, hardware monitoring, digital 
audio I/O, and, at least in my experience, works out of the box quite 
well with ALSA (and Rosegarden). This card doesn't have an onboard 
synth, but works very well with softsynths and outboard gear (at least 
in my experience). From there it's easy to upgrade to the Delta cards, 
since they use the same drivers.

I've also had good luck with the SBLive! -- the emu10k1 car -- it pretty 
much works out of the box also with ALSA (and therefore Rosegarden) and 
has an onboard soundfont synth that you can fill up with the sfxload 
utility.

-- Brett