[linux-audio-user] jack+timidity+muse

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:59:44 -0300, luis jure wrote:
> el Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:04:32 +0100 (CET)
> "Dr. Matthias Nagorni" <mana at suse.de> escribió:
> 
> > Many soundcards allow only one application at a time to access the PCM
> > device. In your case, jack opens alsa pcm playback and therefore timidity
> > fails to open alsa (it blocks until the pcm device is available again).
> > The best solution would be to make timidity a jack client, but this is a
> > very difficult task.
> 
> thank you for your answer, i was fearing something of the sort... i'm
> recompiling muse without jack support [takes a while...] so that i can run
> it without starting jack. any better ideas anyone?

Use a jack enabled MIDI playback synth (eg. fluidsynth, nee iiwusynth).

- Steve