[linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve

[Hans Fugal]

IIRC you can have timidity or some other software synth render to a
wav file, in which case you wouldn't get any dropouts. As long as your
score isn't realtime, that ought to work ok. Sorry I can't remember if
that was timidity, fluidsynth, or something else...


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:50:24 -0400, Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org> wrote:
> 
> Timidity is practically unusable with Alsa on my box.  In other ways
> it's only slightly creaky (it's a 3-4 year old AMD 755 box).  But
> there are too many dropouts when I play a multichannel MIDI file for
> me to use it to proofread my publishing.  (Under OSS timidity was
> fine, but regular readers may remember, my OSS broke when I upgraded
> to kernel 2.4.26, and I could only get help fixing ALSA, so I'm
> running ALSA).
> 
> So I'm trying to set up the hardware MIDI on the SBLive.  I'm
> following the directions at
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html> and things look
> normal.  When I run "playmidi -a score.midi", it looks like it's
> playing, but there isn't any sound.  (Yes, the speaker is plugged into
> the right place.)  I've looked at the mixer settings
> and don't see anything obvious to change.
> 
> So can anyone give me any advice either about how to get the hardware
> synth to work or how to get Timidity to work better?  One part of my
> score is a quarter note longer than the others, and I need to find out
> where this happens.
> 
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> Laura (mailto:lconrad at laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
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