midi stuff

[dave]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 04:36 pm, Cyber Source wrote:
I've play around with sound alot. Including midi's. If you happen to have a 
sound card capable of hardware midi I highly suggest you check out this great 
how to on the ubuntu forums. It is the clearest and easiest to follow I have 
found.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=b4b0478b82a983657d590cb5cbc88a60&t=30963&page=1&pp=10

This how-to worked great for me even though I don't use ubuntu. It seems some 
of the needed elements of the midi driver aren't loaded by default ( sb cards 
using emu10k1 driver ). The other benefit of this is being able to use sound 
fonts! they are awsome. I have one I use now its FluidR3GM.SF2 it is a 70MB 
instrument collection. The sound is tremendous. In addition with hardware 
midi you can use Kmid which has a nice album/music collection playlist 
feature. You can also adjust the speed/tempo etc. Its a nice midi player. I 
don't know if this will help or not. For anyone with a sb card this is a good 
resource.

Dave



> I apt-get-ted (apt-get rocks!) timidity++ and all is well. Even rebooted
> just to get rid of all that I had been modprobin and it still worked
> with my basic alsa config.
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
> > in the link it says how to create a port, i did that, start the file
> > with kmid and i can see the piano keys all playing on the channels,
> > etc. but no sound and I have all the volumes up and not muted
> >
> > Mike Richardson wrote:
> >> Cyber Source wrote:
> >>> Anyone know the alsa config line to add /dev/sequencer?, it is what
> >>> I believe to be missing to get a midi playing.
> >>
> >> I'm sure you've googled a bit, but have you tried this?
> >>
> >> http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/4-sequencers_and_softsynths/quick-too
> >>t-midisynth_howto.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Come to think of it, I really should get my MIDI sequencer hooked
> >> into my machine again... :)