Hello,

A friend lend me his soundblaster-board, and I am toying around with
the devices, and some things are not clear to me - I am new to the
world of soundcards :-)

I found .wav, mod, .midi, .voc - files at a local site,
I could play the wav by simply cat-ing them to /dev/dsp, and in the
case of glass.wav this sounds good - I put it in /etc/profile :-)

But again on some others where there is language in it, it is simply
painfully slow and thus low, you understand next to nothing...

How can I adjust the speed there?

Using str to (I display a picture, but what do I do with a sound? :-) )
'sound' a mod-file I found out that I had to set the khz lower to get
something without interruptions, -s 20000 is fairly good, sometimes even
-s 32768 works...

Using xvmixer I can adjust the volume and the like, but I cannot do this
with another tool, or are there more?

I am asking myself whether this is all one can do with a soundcard, because
it is not very exciting...

...hasta.voc sounds so slow you hardly understand the meaning, a friend of
mine with a NeXT had this played whenever someone logged out...
...it said: "hasta la vista, baybe..." and did a cool sound...

btw, I simply connected the card to the internal speaker, maybe I get
more interesting resulst connecting it to my stereo :-)

Cheers, Michael Will
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