Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:33:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: dkelly@nebula.tbe.com (David Kelly) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ: best currently supported sound card? Message-ID: <199809011933.VAA09801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199809011959.OAA29105@PeeCee.tbe.com> from "David Kelly" at Sep 1, 98 02:59:06 pm
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> Demonstrating further ignorance, most cards have an FM synthesizer but > some have a wavetable. Wavetable seems to be a feature promoted over > FM. Haven't sorted out whether the desired cards are bound to FM due to > the chipset or if wavetable is a viable option. Back to my modem > thinking the wavetable might be easy to preload with my character set, > then simply play the desired "notes" in appropriate order to send the > data. overkill. Even if you pre-compose single bits of '0' and '1', at 300 baud that's 3ms each or 24 samples/bit, and you can easily concatenate the samples in software for almost no CPU or memory overhead. Now a nice thing would be to try soft decoding! > Find it a bit hard to believe I'm sweating this hard over the purchase > of a $25 card. Oughta just buy 3 or 4 different ones and try them all. yes, but if you are unlucky you might get all unsupported cards... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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