[LAU] Cannot play fuildsynth sounds from Alesis Control Pad

[lanas]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:24:13 +0100,
Harry Van Haaren <harryhaaren at gmail.com> wrote :

> 1. Are you sure that your soundfont has a sample on every key? Ie:
> Check WHICH
> notes are being sent from the Alesis Control Pad, and compare them to
> the pads on your
> Axiom?  (Use KMidiMon or GMidiMon or ... for testing?)

As I've reported, hitting the same pad 20 times will bring out one
(faint) sound.  I do not think the Alesis Control Pad is changing MIDI
note number during these 20 hits on the very same pad.

I also do not think the Control Pad has cross-pad noise (it is
adjustable) as cross-pad noise does not happen when using Hydrogen nor
does it happen when using the Control Pad to trigger the sounds of a
M-Audio Prokeys 88 keyboard with built-in sounds.

Clearly, the Alesis Control Pad seems to be working fine.

> 2. Have you tried using VMPK (Virtual Midi Piano Keyboard) to send
> MIDI notes
> to QSynth to see how that reacts? (dropping notes yes/no?)

Qsynth also works fine when played by the keys and pad of both M-Audio
keybaords (Axion 25 and Prokeys 88).

> Good luck.. -Harry

Ouside of luck, there must be a good friggin' reason why it is not
possible to reliably trigger Qsynth sounds (with velocity!) from an
Alesis Control Pad.



> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:06 PM, lanas <lanas at securenet.net> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> >  Even though Qsynth's green light is flashign on each pas hit from
> > the Alesis Control Pad, barely a sound is coming out.  Out of 20
> > hits maybe one sound comes out and that's it (drum sound on channel
> > 10 or any other sound for that matter). On the other hand when
> > connected to Hydrogen, the Alesis Control Pad plays each single
> > sound, complete with velocity and all.
> >
> >  The pads from a M-Audio Axiom 25 keyboard works fine with Qsynth.
> >
> >  Why is this so ? Why does the Control Pad plays so so well with
> > Hydrogen but barely can emit a sound when connected to Qsynth/using
> > fluidsynth ?  It'd be real nice to be able to use drumsticks in
> > playing some soundfonts !
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestion/hint/idea,
> >
> > Cheers.
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