Hi Parus,
I must say I'm really impressed with your project. I'ts really useful for a busy space like mine where I cannot afford to have a mixing table.
Everything I wanted to do works, in the best possible way.
With this I can mix what I consider the best DOS audio setup. Great SB16 compatibility, true OPL3 with digital output, MT-32, SC-55 and DB50XG (without hanging note bug) to cover all the main options for music and of course optical drive. And I still have 2 digital and 1 analog inputs available.
Also I have to say that I haven't notice any impact in compatibility or any memory footprint. And thanks to mixing in the Live instead of the old AWE32 the overal quality of the audio has improved greatly, to the point that sometimes I wonder myself if I made a mistake and the audio is coming directly from the SB Live (it isn't, I haven't installed any driver for DOS)
This is my setup, quoting from some time ago when I explained my plans:
Schyz wrote:AWE32
- OPL3+EMU8k -> internal SPDIF-in
- Wave-out -> Line-in in the back with a male to male 3.5 mm stereo cable
(this i […]
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AWE32
- OPL3+EMU8k -> internal SPDIF-in
- Wave-out -> Line-in in the back with a male to male 3.5 mm stereo cable
(this is following your recommendation for cleaner AWE32 audio)
Keropi's MPU 401 clone
- Internal wavetable -> internal Aux-in with typical analog CD-Audio cable (the MPU 401 card has an internal line-out header for the midi daughterboard)
- External Roland CM-500 -> secondary external Line-in in external module / front panel
Optical Drive
- Internal CD-In with typical analog CD-Audio cable
The only criticism is that maybe the interface can be a bit hard to understand at the beginning, but once you get a proper working config it's just a matter of saving the configuration to a file and forget about it. I have even created a couple of batch files that allow me to switch between the wavetable and the external Roland synth (as both use por 330) just by tweaking the volume levels, but I see how it can be even better than a mixing table as you can customise and save levels per game and just run a batch file to launch each one.
Really good job. Thank you!