[linux-audio-user] Setting OSS emulations using .soundrc?

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Mon Mar 20 13:02:48 EST 2006


David Baron wrote:
> I have three "cards"
> 1. An ens1371 -- oldie but goodie fished from the can (as my dman2044 has no 
> alsa support).
> 2. A Yamaha sw60xg. Midi sound generator, run through snd-mpu401 (Yamaha 
> recommended such in w2k before they had a real driver).
> 3. A Roland um-1 USB MIDI interface.
> 
> Applications that let me choose my routings work fine. Jack is great.
> 
> However, many OSS oriented apps simply default to the /dev/??0 as default.

The default should be /dev/??? (without a zero) so that it can be made a
symbolic link to /dev/???X.

> In my set up, audio plays but of course, MIDI does not. Nor can I get
> MIDI input. How might I set things up so that the default output
> /dev/midi0 references the Yamaha, now referenced in /dev/midi1, for
> instance and the input references the um-1, now /dev/midi2 ??

Load the snd-virmidi module, use aconnect to connect from the UM-1 to
the first virtual port and from the first virtual port to the Yamaha
port.  Then tell your programs to use /dev/midi03, or try to create a
symlink from /dev/midi to /dev/midi03, or just load the snd-virmidi
module at index 0.


HTH
Clemens



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