Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:08:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sb awe32 wavetable synthesis midi Message-ID: <199604101408.KAA01448@neon.Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960409215651.19462H-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Apr 9, 96 10:00:19 pm
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Doug White writes: > On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, matthew c. mead wrote: > > > > Do our drivers support the SB32AWE with wave table synthesis > > > > for midi? Thanks! > > > I doubt it. it required a special version of cakewalk, a DOS sequencer, > > > to recognize the "sysex" calls to use the soundfonts. I highly doubt the > > > code has been written in the VoxWare drivers. > > Despite the lack of software support in free Unices, is > > this a good card? Is it something I'm likely to get > > documentation on to be able to fill in the missing pieces in the > > drivers? Does anyone know if it does full duplex audio? > The wavetable portion of the card sounds wonderful. The built in sounds > are some of the best. The rest is, well, an SB16. This is NOT the best > side of the card; the mbone tool vat sounds horrible, popping and > clicking all over. (I'm going to try putting a GUS in next to it and see > if they will co-exist.) > Research is going into getting full duplex working. I guess they can do > it under Windoze, so there must be a way. Hmm. At this point in time I'm not so interested in that as I am the patch management. I'm going to look into getting some documentation from Creative Labs, and find out what kind of agreement that requires. I'd certainly like to be able to do custom wavetable midi synthesis under FreeBSD with this card - speaking of which - I bought one last night in frustration. It's not the SB32AWE, but the SB 32PnP. I don't know what the difference is, does anyone else? This one does AWE stuff (the AWE programs run on it), and the wave table synthesis sounds pretty good... It sounds best in the little AWE32 Control Panel where you can play with a little keyboard using the mouse, but for some reason when I play midi files with media player or creative midi, they don't sound as good. Any ideas? -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
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