[linux-audio-user] Solfege on gentoo?

[Dave Phillips]

Iain Duncan 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.
>
>
> That about sums up my experience, seems kinda tragic. I'll try a 
> little longer before resorting to using the Csound5 api to make my own 
> python ear training program, which kinda seems like gross overkill ...
>
Well, Florian came up with a workaround solution, proving once again 
that there's always some way to do it in Linux... ;)

But you would think that the ALSA sequencer interface would be supported 
by now...

Best,

dp