[LAU] Does my audio card has a hardware MIDI synthesizer?

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

On Wednesday 20 January 2010 12:49:01 Cedric Roux wrote:
> It's a Dell, Intel CPU, standard stuff I guess.
> The audio card is on the PCI bus.
> Here is what lspci has to say about that.
> ----
> 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD
<snip>
> ----
> I bet the important stuff is the 1028:0214 PCI number, right?
> 
> Alsa shows no MIDI device whatsoever (there is a 'Midi Through'
> stuff, but that does not count, right?).
> 
> So I'm stuck here.
> Any help is welcome.
> Yeah, timidity works fine, that's not the point. I want
> to use the hardware synthesizer (if there is one).

That device has neither a hardware synthesizer (which is rather uncommon 
today) nor any midi io.

What do you expect from a hardware synthesizer? Most of them process sf2 
soundfonts in firmware/dsp just as fluidsynth does in software on your cpu...

Have fun,

Arnold
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