[linux-audio-user] Timididy + Virmidi = no sound?

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Fri May 13 03:12:51 EDT 2005


Hedley Robertson wrote:
> # aconnect -o
> client 64: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-0' [type=kernel]
>    0 'VirMIDI 0-0     '
> ...
> client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user]
>    0 'TiMidity port 0 '
>
> Playing directly to Timidity works and sounds great.  Timidity runs
> at about 50% processor utilization.
>
> aplaymidi -p 128:0 /root/Necromancer.mid
>
> Then I try to connect my virtmidi port and play through it.
>
> aconnect 64:0 128:0
> aplaymidi -p 64:0 /root/Necromancer.mid

This doesn't play through the virmidi port.

Virmidi is a driver that allows you to access sequencer ports through
the old OSS /dev/midi* devices.  Everything sent to 64:0 can be read
from /dev/midi00, and everything sent to /dev/midi00 can be read from
64:0.

Try snd-seq-dummy.


HTH
Clemens




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