[LAU] XG Sound Generator Alternatives

I would love to upgrade my old PIII clunker. Apparently, all the better
motherboards lack ISA slots nowadays.
The older speakerphone modem I have in a slot can be cheaply replaced with a
PCI version of the same ilk.
My problem is my old Yamaha sw60xg sound card. This is a rusty, trusty MIDI
sound generator with audio DSP (no audio interface to the computer). It can be
made to work on anything using mpu401, no IRQ, no DMA, no problems. Can be
controlled using the old XGedit run with WINE. Decent sounds and I have many
mixes based on this.
Yamaha's stuff is too proprietary, closed, for alsa support. Their sw100xg is
still a fantastic PCI audio/MIDI card but no alsa support. The sw60xg did not
need it.
So what alternatives might I have. (A quad-core screamer might run virtual-
instruments OK.) The same sounds are available on old serial port versions
from Yamaha but there must be something better around in 2010!
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On 02/27/2010 10:17 PM, David Baron wrote:
> I would love to upgrade my old PIII clunker. Apparently, all the better
> motherboards lack ISA slots nowadays.
...
> My problem is my old Yamaha sw60xg sound card. This is a rusty, trusty MIDI
> sound generator with audio DSP (no audio interface to the computer). It can be
> made to work on anything using mpu401, no IRQ, no DMA, no problems. Can be
> controlled using the old XGedit run with WINE. Decent sounds and I have many
> mixes based on this.
why not get a cheap quad-core system for general use, with a
contemporary audio/midi interface, and keep the old dinosaur around just
for your mixes that include the yamaha card? you can interface both with
midi, and pipe the audio from the old box into the new one via an analog in.
i'm sure there are cutting-edge boards with isa slots for industry
applications, but they usually come with hefty price tags. certainly not
worth it just for an antediluvian audio interface.
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