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

[Dave Phillips]

Hi Laura:

  I'm using TiMidity on an 800 MHz AMD box with an SBLive Value. Usually 
I'm running Planet CCRMA's Red Hat 9, but sometimes I run the AGNULA 
distro instead. Both supply a low-latency kernel: are you using a 
low-latency system or a standard unpatched kernel ?

  If you want to send me the score in question I'll check it on my box. 
I've played a lot of dense MIDI files, they work fine.

  Also, what does your ~/timidity.cfg look like ? If you don't have one 
in your home directory you might find it in your /etc directory.

Best regards,

dp


Laura Conrad 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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