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Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Sound fonts are effectively sample banks, a lot of earlier soundcards are basically full synthesisers just without a control panel or keys.

There will be various elements of how the operators and effects work or any nonlinearity introduced by the circuits that will not necessarily be reflected in a sound font