Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] SBLive mailing list?
From: Josh Green (jgreen_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 15:23:00 EEST
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:54:09 +0200
Linium <intent_AT_club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Le Thu, 20 Sep 2001, vous avez écrit :
> > Chuck Busby hat gesagt: // Chuck Busby wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, how many SBLive users are there on this list?
> >
> > I *was* a SBLive user, but I was so disappointed by the
> bad full duplex
> > performace of my card [see threads in the
> linux-audio-dev, alsa-user,
> > csound and alsa-devel mailing lists], that I shelled
> out about 200 Euro
> > to buy a Midiman Audiophile. The Live card still is in
> my box, but only
> > because Quake3 didn't like the Midiman with Alsa. I
> suspect the hardware,
> > as I have seen similar flaws in my machine at work,
> wich runs Win2k.
> >
> > I cannot recommend SBLive's.
>
> I second that.
> Nevertheless just 2 things.
>
> Fullduplex works with the open source OSS driver (the one
> from the kernel). The
> full-duplex issue is with ALSA only. Even the last 0.9.b7
> doesn't solve it.
> For the people wondering what is the problem, you get
> some long period
> of distortion between clean periods.
>
Will someone in ALSA developement please verify and check
this problem??? I remember discussing this issue before I
went to the LinuxTag a few months back, and it plauged us
the whole time we were demonstrating our applications. I
would love to see flawless SB Live! full duplex audio, I
want one of these cards myself (for wavetable synthesis as
well as multi PCM and probably better sig to noise ratio
than my ISA AWE 32 :) Can we contact Creative Labs?? Will
they help us with something like this. It is certainly
keeping me from buying one of these cards (despite how cheap
they are, I don't want to end up with a piece of crap).
Lates..
Josh Green
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