[LAU] qsynth: errors

[Shelagh Manton]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:58:20 +0100
schoappied <schoappied at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> > schoappied wrote:
> >   
> >> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Joe Hartley wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:26:54 +0100
> >>>> schoappied <schoappied at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> When I want to open qsynth on Ubuntu while jackctl is already
> >>>>> running I'll get these messages:
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Turn off the setting in Qsynth that starts jack when Qsynth
> >>>> starts.
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> i'm sorry but this setting is not available on qsynth(fluidsynth)
> >>>
> >>> however it's something of the sort on qjackctl
> >>>
> >>> sure, you must have jack running _before_ you start qsynth.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> The error about connecting with jack is gone.
> >>
> >> But the one about not connecting to alsa_seq, no midi device
> >> stands still....
> >>
> >> : Failed to create the MIDI driver (alsa_seq). No MIDI input will
> >> be available.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > do you have the alsa sequencer module loaded?
> >
> > try as root:
> >
> >   modprobe snd-seq-midi
> >
> > and to make it permanent on every boot (on ubuntu):
> >
> >   echo snd-seq-midi > /etc/modules
> >
> > byee
> >   
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> There is a problem with the midi stuff. I must say I don't understand 
> close to nothing about this subject on linux, but it seems that there 
> are some things which are disturbing eachother...
> 
> This is my /etc/modules on Ubuntu:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
> # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
> 
> loop
> lp
> fuse
> 
> snd-seq-midi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> But I'll still get those messages...
> 
> @Arda:
> 
> service timidity stop (as root) is not working. Command service not 
> found or something....
> 
> 
"service" is  a redhat thang. Use /etc/init.d/timidity stop instead.

> I also use noteedit and for that I need to load timidity. Is there a
> way to set up the midi in Ubuntu which works with all programs e.g. 
> noteedit, rosegarden, qsynth etc. ??

timidity has a jack option..

timidity -iA -Oj  #-iA using Alsa and -Oj outputting to jackd

This may make timidity play nice with all your jack toys.

Shelagh
> 
> My sister is a (semi) prof. musicians and she is using Finale 2007. I 
> want to look if I can set her mind to linux..... But things should be 
> preconfigured smoothly to accomplish this....
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dirk
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