Reply 78 of 330, by gerwin
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Thanks for the tips.
The Maestro 32/96 eeprom config seems limited to these settings: Synth 1 and 2: Address: 300...380, IRQ: 5,7,9,11,12,15. Also Address and or IRQ can be set to OFF, but filling in OFF in any field will disable that particular synth. An IRQ for the synth must be totally free, no sharing of IRQ's.
Hopefully the SoundBlaster Live! is more flexible, I might give him a shared IRQ 11 and disable the SB16 emulation part...
Edit: it works! funny how in pure dos you can switch soundcards by only choosing which card too initialize. You can also play around with the Crystalware CS423X drivers for dos/windows but they don't seem to add anything new.
Edit: I have an additional question: I am currently interested in these Waveblaster daughterboards cards and managed to order a Roland SCB-7 and a Yamaha DB50XG. I like the modular approach of the daughterboards. To use them on an ISA bus most simple and resource undemanding would be a Roland MPU-401AT card. My question is if there are also good waveblaster host cards for the PCI bus?
Edit: to answer my own question above, here is some info on the Queststudios Forum PCI soundcards with wavetable headers and also the Keep DBs off (most) SB16s!! vogons topic. And another good resource: Alsa project, Terratec listing and Twiki Wavetable soundcards
Incomplete Summary of PCI Bus cards with a waveblaster/wavetable connector:
-Diamond Monster Sound M80 and MX200.
-Terratec Xlerate Aureal AU8820.
-Turtle Beach Montego Vortex AU8820B2, very similar to Diamond Sonic Impact S90 and Aztech PCI 338.
-Turtle Beach Montego II Vortex 2 AU8830A2, no real windows 2k/XP drivers, same chipset as Diamond Monster Sound MX300, and Generic Aureal Vortex 2, almost same chipset as Aureal SuperQuad 2500.
-Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Mostly Crystal CS4630, card similar to VideoLogic SonicFury and VideoLogic SonicXplosion.
-Terratec DMX XFire 1024 Crystal CS4624.
-Terratec SiXPack 5.1+ Crystal CS4630.
-Terratec BASE 2 PCI ESS Solo-1N ES1938
-Terratec DMX ESS Canyon3D ES1970.
-Aureal Soundsystem XFire and clones, VIA Chipset.
-Final Extreme FM801 AU.
-Xwave Thunder 3D VLSI ThunderBird128.
In addition I imagine there are ways to make daughterboards work through a Joystick/MPU-401 Port, a bit Like this and this?
EDIT: removed two faulty entries.