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From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver for 386BSD
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References: <BvwuJE.6x0@pix.com> <1992Oct12.095513.15213@autelca.ascom.ch>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:20:50 GMT
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In article <1992Oct12.095513.15213@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:
[...]
>Do you know which version of the Pro ?
No, it was bought about 6 months ago, can you tell from that?
>I have heard that there are two different ones.
>One use two chips with 11 channels on each to do 11 channel stereo (?).
>The newer one just has one chip with 20 channels on it.
>If that's true, there must be, at least in stereo mode, quite a different
>handling of those two boards. Which one are you using ?
The box said something about "22 voices".
>You see, I am interested in buying such a board. I would like to do
>some editing of songs under X11R5 and create Midi output to play on my
>girl-friends digital piano.
Well the MIDI stuff should be just fine on both versions of the Pro.
>I am running 386BSD and this driver is OK for me.
>Now, I wonder, which board should I buy or is it easy to support
>the new version of the board which I would rather want to buy.
Well we are going to try to make it work for a Pro Audio Spetrum 16
(which I think is the best card on the market - better grounding for
less interferance, _standard_ 50-pin SCSI, 16-bit DAC (and I hear AtoD))
as soon as we can, so I immagine it ought to work on the newer SBPro
also. Check on the prices of the PAS-16 + MIDI kit and the ProAudio + MIDI.
Creatave Labs charges *alot* for the MIDI kit...
>Thanks for the port !
>I was about to looking at the code while you are posting this article.
Good timing then. Good luck getting the MIDI stuff working (we havn't
tested it - need to find a MIDI device first, we do have the MIDI kit 'tho).
--
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