[LAU] no sound in impro-visor

[Grammostola Rosea]

Joel White wrote:
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> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>> Dave Phillips wrote:
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>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> You'll have problems with JavaSound if your soundcard has no integral 
>>> mixer. JavaSound only looks for an OSS-compliant device, which may be 
>>> why GR's alsa-oss installation worked for him.
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>> I don't know if my card, maudio audiophile 24/96 pci has a integral mixer...
>> Isn't it possible to fix it with timidity and aconnect or something?
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> I worked this out recently for Impro-Visor (I have a Delta 1010LT, which
> also does not have MIDI).  It has to do with connecting raw MIDI with a
> sequencer like timidity:
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> Step 1:
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> sudo modprobe snd-virmidi
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> Step 2:
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> timidity -iAqqq -B8,8 &  # don't know if the -B8,8 is really necessary
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> Step 3:
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> connect the first VirMIDI port to the first Timidity port (I use
> qjackctl and the ports are under the ALSA tab in the Connections window)
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> Step 4:
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> In Impro-Visor, select the first VirMIDI port for output (or whichever
> one you connected to Timidity in Step 3).
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> Play and enjoy!
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> Google "timidity virmidi" to find several pages describing various
> aspects of this, including how to use aconnect to accomplish Step 3.
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> Good Luck!
>
> Joel
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Wow, this is great, it works... :)

Thanks a lot man!

Kind regards,

`R