good sound card for beginners

[Christopher Stamper]

I though that the memory was real chips on the card... :-/

I think I'll try that...

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Toby Smithe <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Christopher Stamper
> <christopherstamper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> A nice advantage with those is the ability to load soundfonts into the
> >> wavetable, so you don't need to run a software synth to do basic midi
> >> work. (obviously the quality is not professional, but it is good enough
> >> for composing and learning) - In fact, back in the day it was good
> >> enough to produce  a backing track for live performance.
> >
> > They don't really have enough onboard space to load any real soundfonts.
> > Nothing beats a good software synth... :-)
>
> With the snd-emu10k1 driver, you can use the max_buffer_size to
> specify the maximum amount of memory to allocate for SoundFonts, in
> megabytes. In my /etc/modprobe.d/local file, I have the line,
>
> options snd-emu10k1 max_buffer_size=256
>
> which ensures that the module is loaded by default with 256 megabytes
> available for the wavetable.
>
> I then use /etc/rc.local to call asfxload, loading the fluid-soundfont
> files on every boot:
>
> asfxload -b=0 FluidR3_GM.sf2
> asfxload -b=1 FluidR3_GS.sf2
>
> Then, all that's left to do is connect devices to the synth. I find
> this "beats a good software synth" every time. ;)
>
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