First post, by tadeu
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Good night,
I got two sound cards. The older one, installed in my 486 DX-2 is a Jazz Vision 16, which does FM synthesis through the ubiquitous YMF-262 chip. And, well, it's OPL-3, and works out of the box with everything (except Windows NT sometimes, but it's another story). The newer is an Audigy 2 ZS, originally installed in an old Dell P4HT.
MIDI music in the Jazz card is a point-and-shooter... You just tell wherever the board is, and AdLib+FM synthesis chip does the rest. The Audigy, however seems not to posses any FM synthesis equipment. It only works when I choose a SoundFont.
So, alright, Audigy does not have FM, end of history, right? Well, not quite. AWE32/64 (EMU8000/EMU101K) seems to provide a certain "compatibility layer" in which it does provide some kind of integrated synthesis. What I'm curious about is if my Audigy card contains such mechanism. It seems not to, but documentation is a bit scarce. How did this emulation kind worked before?
Thanks,
Att.,
-trp
Main rig: Asus P8H61-M LX2 R2.0, Xeon E3-1245 v2, 12 GB DDR III, GTX 760 - running Debian Testing
Retro rig: AcerAcros, 486DXII/66, 16 MB SIMM, Cirrus Logic GD5428, Jazz16 SB, U.S. Robotics 36.6K Modem, FreeDOS