Well, first of all I am overjoyed that I can listen to LONNIE LISTON SMITH while I am coding. Hearing sound at all in Linux is a novelty for this lemur in 2.2.x kernels. (When I ran 2.0.x kernels I had a SB32 and had to initialize it in DOS then loadlin in...)
The big sucky feature is the lack of features. Basically all this module does is emulate a SB16 very badly. I personally have got CDs to play, and samples with l..o..t..s.. of dropouts, like when you have your DMA settings all wrong in Windows. There is apparently no support for using all 4 channels on the card, or using environmental audio, or loading sample banks for MIDI.
I am sure that someone will discover how to stop the samples doing weird stuff though, since it seems to work for some people.
I really don't see why CL won't release the source though. I mean, the more people have access to the features of the sound card, the more its popularity will grow as more operating systems and applications support it. Weird. Is it supposed to cut down on evil rival soundcard makers stealing industrial secrets or something? You can just see them cackling with glee over the sourcecode:
"Aha! So they *do* use Port !# to access the reverb amount! Hahahahahah! Quick, make ours do the same, this is obviously a GREAT port to use..."
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Well, first of all I am overjoyed that I can listen to
LONNIE LISTON SMITH while I am coding. Hearing sound
at all in Linux is a novelty for this lemur in 2.2.x kernels.
(When I ran 2.0.x kernels I had a SB32 and had to initialize
it in DOS then loadlin in...)
The big sucky feature is the lack of features. Basically all
this module does is emulate a SB16 very badly. I personally
have got CDs to play, and samples with l..o..t..s.. of
dropouts, like when you have your DMA settings all wrong
in Windows. There is apparently no support for using all
4 channels on the card, or using environmental audio,
or loading sample banks for MIDI.
I am sure that someone will discover how to stop the
samples doing weird stuff though, since it seems to
work for some people.
I really don't see why CL won't release the source though.
I mean, the more people have access to the features of
the sound card, the more its popularity will grow as more
operating systems and applications support it. Weird. Is it
supposed to cut down on evil rival soundcard makers
stealing industrial secrets or something? You can just see
them cackling with glee over the sourcecode:
"Aha! So they *do* use Port !# to access the reverb
amount! Hahahahahah! Quick, make ours do the same,
this is obviously a GREAT port to use..."