Personally I've never touched them unless I was troubleshooting someone else's problem.

What's the benefit of removing them? Couldn't a config option be offered that would override all seperate values?

I've been running the OPL at 11050, just feels smoother, maybe even slightly more stable in the games I play.

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=512 <--- Is there a formulae to balance block-size and prebuffer ?
prebuffer=15

[sblaster]
sbtype=sbpro2
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=cms <--- Have experimented with each to learn more.
oplrate=11050 <--- Have OPL sample rate set to half of mixer rate.

[gus]
gus=false <--- GUS = FALSE, but left the other lines in. (Nothing against GUS this is just my 'current' .conf). I like stereo sound and GUS just sounds mono, or doesn't exaggerate the difference enough. (But it sounds amazing for emulated GUS).
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=11025 <--- I don't imagine CD quality audio here will help much. 😁
tandy=auto
tandyrate=11025
disney=true

Anything else I may have left out of use, just PM me.

I usually either change them altogether or leave them as default.

i like the idea.
mostly i use also the default samplerates and change it only for testing.

but it whould be great to have the option maybe (for guys like tabris or older frontends) to manually add a samplerate (gusrate, pcrate...) again, which overwrites the mixer samplerate only for this specific setting.

Voted for group them together.

Qbix wrote:

No, I always change all of them (to the same value)

I configure all of them to 48khz. It originates in the fact that otherwise my old live! did some resampling on them. Now I have an x-fi but I did not feel like changing them, I don't think I would gain anything (neither speed nor quality-wise) if I set them to 44.1 or 96khz 😁

Same : 48hkz throughout for me - tends to produce less aliasing overall. However I did notice that Munt sounded a lot more 'off key' @ 48hkz too but that's a hard thing to prove as Munt is often off key.

I don't care about being able to change sample rates and like the idea.

Never changed them from the default, so I would vote to make them hidden and put in a kind of Override All Rate.

So that if needed it still is possible to change them one by one if need be (Hidden options), when "Override All Rate" is set to a "none" value.

I too would vote for a common value for all 'devices'.

Erik.

I would agree with the idea and voted for it.

One thing that might be nice in that case is some kind of simple-minded low-pass filtering (or using less steep flanks) for the PC speaker. It tends to sound overly sharp at 48 kHz. At least to my ears.

EDIT: Seems like this was old info? Or maybe the better speakers I got since I last tried a PC-speaker game in dosbox? Anyway, it sounds about right and if I understand the pcspeaker.cpp code correctly, the flanks are not infinitely steep anyway. So forget this.