From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 10 18:53:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26347 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA26337 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA01176; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:36:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:36:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "matthew c. mead" cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sb awe32 wavetable synthesis midi In-Reply-To: <199604101408.KAA01448@neon.Glock.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, matthew c. mead wrote: > 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 honestly do not know. I know people who have written their own upload routines for DOS programs, based on those in the developer's package. > 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? Oh. I think there is a difference. (Or am I confusing with the the Value Edition?) A friend has the sb32, and I think it's basically the same (the board is smaller, if I recall; the AWE32 has two SIMM slots and is a full-length ISA card). > 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? That is a different software package. My guess is that you need to use the AWE Control Panel or the AWEUTIL program to kick it into General MIDI Emulation or somesuch. Also, the media player must support the "sysex" command so that the AWE can be addressed. It's been so long since I've played with that I can't remember. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major