Sebastian Br�ne wrote:
> I'm considering buying one of those two Hoontech cards.
I have the SoundTrack Digital-XG.
> I read reports that optical out of both cards is supported
> by the ALSA drivers, but I don't know whether the
> digital in of the XG is working or not.
Digital inputs & outputs are suppoused to work. I cannot tell you, since I
don't have any digital equipement to conect the card to. But I've seen
messages of people using it successfully.
> Regarding the midi capability of the cards:
> Especially the XG with the yamaha chip seems to be great under
> Windows. Are all those features supported under linux/alsa tooEUR
As far as i know, SoundTrack cards do not have any synth capabilities. All
midi synth is done in software. I tryed playing midis in Windows once. And it
gave me the typical poor quality you'd expect of a software synth.
> In a feature sheet of the NX it was said, that the NX is using
> "main" memory for it's midi operations. Does this work with the
> alsa driversEUR
Of course! I'm sure those cards use main memory. And main CPU, too. ;-D
> Thanks for answering these questions or telling your general
> experiences with any of the cards,
The card is a one-channel pcm card. No hardware support for synth, no hardware
support for mixing streams. (AFAIK) etc... If this is what you want, the card
is nice. If you want wavetable... there are very few cards doing it in
hardware.
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