some advice About Wave Table cards

Hello!
I need your advice and comments from your experience.
I want to buy a new sound card to replace my "old but reliable yet" SB16. I would like to replace it with a sound card capable of using wave table for Instrument synthesis for midi songs, and the Linux driver should be fully functional (wave, opl, recording ok, etc.)
And I have 3 choices from my local computer retailer:
1.- SB AWE 128 pci card
2.- SB PCI 128 Ensoniq chipset ct4810
3.- SB 512 PCI
Which one has better support in Linux?
I am avoiding the SB Live, since the drivers are alpha and has some bugs. Apparently the SB 512 uses the same emu10k chipset as the SB Live? thanks for your attention and any feedback.
bye,

-Herman

Yes... the SBPCI512 uses the same chipset as the Live!. Therefore it uses the same driver and has the same bugs as the Live!. If you've already decided to stay away from the SB Live!, then you should stay away from the PCI512.

Althoug... I'm using a PCI512 and I really don't have too many complaints. The MIDI doesn't work on it, but I make my music with real instruments, so it doesn't bother me at all.

-Paco

Well, if you're actually looking for wavetable support, the SB 512 (using the same chipset as the SB Live!) is the only one of those three that actually *has* a hardware wavetable synthsizer on it.

The emu10ki synth on the SB 512 is supported by ALSA, IIRC.

Bill