[linux-audio-user] Next question re midi

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
> 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

Ctrl-Z

> , back it up

You can't do that

>  or
> just stop it

Ctrl-C

> , once it's playing.  man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
> 

You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI playback,
aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy basically.

Lee