[linux-audio-user] Solfege on gentoo?

[Iain Duncan]

Awesome Florian, I got that to work with pmidi. I will add your 
instructions to the Solfege wiki, where it really does not explain that 
technique very well for newbies!

Thanks you soooo much,
iain

Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:18:14 -0500
> Dave Phillips <dlphilp at bright.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>  I just took a look at the audio preferences for 2.0.2, there's no 
>>provision for anything ALSA. :(
>>
>>  The other options offered were /dev/sequencer, /dev/sequencer2, 
>>/dev/music, and none. Selecting /dev/sequencer2 and /dev/music gave me 
>>error messages, /dev/sequencer was selected without error but I got no 
>>sound from the test. No MIDI activity appeared on my patchbay.
>>
>>  The Solfege Web site includes instructions for wedding timidity to 
>>/dev/music. Didn't work for me though, I still received the error for 
>>/dev/music.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> easy workaround:
> 
> Check "use external midiplayer" and enter:
> 
> aplaymidi -p 129:0 %s
> 
> Change the 129:0 to the corresponding port, of course [i use fluidsynth
> and it happens to open port 129:0 if it's the only midi app on my system
> :)] I suppose it would be possible to automate this: If you know you
> always use fluidsynth, it is possible to replace aplaymidi with a script
> that parses the output of
> 
> aconnect -io | grep -i fluid
> 
> and calls aplaymidi with the right -p parameter.. my own shell skillz
> are to n00b though..
> 
> Flo
>