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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, mikkel meinike wrote:

> OK I bin reading deeper in to Sindi's replay and I come to think about
> something about midi. I once road that when using for instance
> Rosengarden one should find out if the sound card had a build in
> synthesiser or else one should have a software emulation of a
> synthesiser but how do I know if the card have build in synthesiser?

If the sound card supports OPL2 or OPL3 it has built in FM synthesis. 
Many of the newer cards/chips do not have it because they expect you to 
use a program instead that provides better midi sound, like timidity 
(which Ron here compiled for BL, for any libc).

If you can insmod opl3 io=0x388 your card supports FM synthesis.
(opl2 is much older)

FM synthesis produces very poor quality imitiations of musical 
instruments, unless you just want organ.

> /Mikkel