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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:1674 comp.os.linux:34628 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:11090 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!news.Hawaii.Edu!lee From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) Subject: Re: Which is the best soundcard supported by 386BSD and Linux ? Message-ID: <C5n45I.L2I@news.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: news@news.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1993Apr17.142720.20950@cti-software.nl> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 18:17:41 GMT Lines: 27 Pim Zandbergen (pim@cti-software.nl) wrote: : As Linux and 386bsd probably do not have equal support, : it's best to rephrase: : : Which is the best soundcard supported by Linux ? I'm currently using both a gus and a pas16 with linux and Hannu Savolainen's sound driver. So I can compare them, but I can't give you a straight answer. Right now, my gus sounds better, except for percussion voices, which come out better on the pas16 -- fm seems to do better at clangy and noisy things. Also, I get more polyphonic voices on the gus. However, I believe a future version of the driver will support more polyphany on the pas16 and also 4-op synthesis (the current version only supports 2-op fm synthesis). At that point, the pas16 might sound overall better -- I can't tell. Now, the driver supports input and output from/to an external midi port only for the pas16, of the two cards, but that will probably change, too. : Which is the best soundcard supported by 386BSD ? Couldn't say. If it's the same driver, maybe the same non-answer would be equally appropriate. -- Greg Lee <lee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>