First post, by SaxxonPike
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Greetings all,
I'm working on a blog post with the aim of providing solutions that work around MPU-401 bugs in the SB16 while still being able to use the other functionality of the SB16 itself. I still like being able to have a real SB16 in my system - more or less because some music production software I like to stream with such as FastTracker and Impulse Tracker are tailored to the 44.1khz stereo output.
With some cards, there are onboard jumpers that allow you to explicitly disable the MPU (the MPUEN jumper) so that you can use a different device. But others lack this jumper, and even others still use PnP which require special configuration. I'm not all that familiar with these cards.
For the sake of further filling out information in this article, how much do you know about configuring the MPU-401 functionality specifically on affected cards, and what workarounds have you found? What are other Vogons threads you recommend citing for this information? Ideally, I'd like to get some of these ideas in the same place.
My current card of choice is a CT2260 and I'm using the MPU-401 interface built into the Via 686B southbridge. But I'm sure there are a lot of other creative solutions out there 😀
This is what I have so far: https://ilovepa.ws/working-around-sound-blast … 6-mpu-401-bugs/
Sound device guides:
Sound Blaster
Aztech
OPL3-SA