Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] SBLive mailing list?
From: Speaker to Vegetables (speaker-to-vegetables_AT_pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 17:41:40 EEST
On Sunday 23 September 2001 04:35 am, HormoneX wrote:
> I may be mistaken on this, but I believe the SBlive has a separate
> dsp chip for it's "environmental audio" and the out put from the
> wavetable can be routed through it. The DSP chip itself is supposed
> to be programmable, so it should bepossible to implment extarnal midi
> control for those effects while simultaneously using the wavetable
> rom sounds.
The SBLive hardware is just a programmable DSP chip and some analog
(and digital, depending on model) I/O ports. The Creative Labs Windows
driver has embedded in it a program for the DSP chip that turns it into
a wavetable synth, "environmental audio" 3D reverb effects engine, and
a virtual veg-a-matic clone. How to program the @#!%&*!!! chip is still
mostly a secret, though rumors of partial leaks can be found scattered
about. Somebody figured out how to program it to be a synth, but not
quite as good a synth as under Windows (no reverb or chorus or other
MIDI-defined effects implemented, from what I have seen so far).
I'm sorry, I'm just fed up with tales of the unlimited POTENTIAL that
this undocumented piece of crap sound card is supposed to have.
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