🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:28:02 +0800, "Alwyn N-L" <alwyn@myrealbox.com>
wrote:

>well, since Roj decided to make some rather opiniated judjements about the
>Live(so it appears anyway) i would like to say i am using a sbLive Value in
>an Athlon 550 with an AK72 motherboard, which i belive uses a via chipset(i
>can't remeber) and i have never had anyproblems with it, the drivers have
>always installed correctly and i have never had any lock ups...

I have a friend who also owns a Live! and an Athlon board (MSI K7T Pro
2-A - same as mine) and doesn't have any lockups - the problems appear
to be mobo vendor specific.  Unfortunately, it's an awful lot of
mobos...

The nearest we can figure is that with the exception of the new 5.1,
all the cards are bus hogs.  The  new 5.1 is the first of the line of
have PCI busmastering - the others never did.  This makes the new
model somewhat more compatible than previous models but still not
immune to weirdness, and still more so than other soundcards from
other vendors which are properly designed.

>it sort of makes me wonder whether anyone really knows how to set up and
>configure a computer these days....

You're right - lot's don't.

>the only problem that i have with it is that when recording at 44.1Khz that
>the clock drifts as it clocks down the 48Khz master clock, but who would
>want to record at 44.1 anyway when you've got the better sample rate of
>48Khz??
>and as Paul D wrote, the midi side of the Live is the best, i mean it uses a
>chip from one of the most respected sampler makers around.. how can you
>argue with that?

I haven't.

>bleh,,, thats my opinion anyway...

And it's a very valid one.

Remember, It's not the MIDI engine I'm dissing - it's everything else
surrounding it.

Roj