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

[Janina Sajka]

Just for comparison, I'm running timidity without problems on an old
Pentium 3 at 350 Mhz with only 192 Mb of RAM.

You might need to give up on playmidi and use aplaymidi which is native
alsa for driving hw synths, though I haven't spent much time on this.

Still, timidity is running smoothly with my SB Live 1 card. I'm using
the timidity-eawpats-12-1 from CCRMA for my sound fonts.

Laura Conrad writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Laura (mailto:lconrad at laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
> (617) 661-8097	fax: (501) 641-5011
> 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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