[linux-audio-user] qsynth not visible in noteedit (but visible in kmid, rosegarden)

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 19 December 2005 06:07, I. I. Ooisen wrote:
> any idea why? any idea how i can fix this?
>
> and can somebody please tell me the difference between kmid and kmidi?
> debian packs them together.

Hi. Kmid needs to have a soundfont loaded onto your soundcard if your card is 
capable of that, so as to produce sounds. In my case I have an Audigy2 
soundblaster card, and can load soundfonts onto it, using the "sfxload 
<path_to_soundfont>" command. You need the package "awesfx" installed to use 
sfxload. 

Kmidi uses timidity synth to produce sounds and does not need soundfonts 
loaded onto your soundcard. Sadly it no longer works for me with KDE versions 
later than that on Fedora Core 1. Maybe issues with the 2.6 kernel post FC1 
are also responsible for Kmidi no longer working, but I've never received an 
answer about that. I seem to recollect that it worked on my initial install 
of Debian Woody 3.0r2, but when I upgraded to Sarge it was removed. A great 
shame, as I always found Kmidi worked more reliably than Kmid.

All the best. Nigel.


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