[linux-audio-user] Next question re midi

[M P Smoak]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed
> > to do midi according to the propaganda.
> >
> > Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
> > modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which
> > is quite bulky so I won't post that list.
> >
> > In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or
> > .ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test
> > seems to be a total non performer.
>
> You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
>
> > 'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0- devices is either a no
> > such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
>
> That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid file
> to a device node.  Use aplaymidi.
>
> Lee

Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback, back it up or
just stop it, once it's playing.  man aplaymidi tells me nothing.