Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Matt Garman <garman@crh3019.urh.uiuc.edu> writes:
| On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:33:13AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
| > garman@crh3019.urh.uiuc.edu (Matt Garman) writes:
| > 
| > | I have a Sound Blaster AWE 32 Plug'n'Play soundcard.  I cannot get it
| > | to play midi!
| 
| > /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/lib/audio/synthgm.sbk
| 
| Yes, but does this use my wavetable?  I tried this, using the sound
| banks installed on my Windows partition from the Creative Labs disk,
| and playing midi files sounds AWEFUL.  It sounds cheap, like playing
| midi through a non-wavetable card.  The instruments sound perfect
| under Windows.
| 
| Also, my xconsole still reports:
| Sequencer: No Midi devices. Input not possible
| 
| but, remember, I do have midi devices!

Afraid I can't help you with that. Mine sounds the same under Linux as 
it does under Windows. I'm no audio expert though and I don't have
anything to compare it against except playing under Windows.

I don't recall every seeing the message about the sequencer on my
system.

Gary