[LAU] Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 PCI sequencer problems

Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabrbedd at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 14:21:44 UTC 2011



On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Scott Webster Wood wrote:

> Of course the Timidity stuff shows up at 128 for ports 0-3 and alsa is saying 
> that port 0 on the AudioPCI is showing up at 16.  But no matter what I seem to 
> do, I can't get any audio to come out:
> # aplaymidi -l
> Port    Client name                      Port name
> 14:0    Midi Through                    Midi Through Port-0
> 16:0    Ensoniq AudioPCI                ES1371
> 20:0    USB Axiom 49                    USB Axiom 49 MIDI 1
> 128:0    TiMidity                        TiMidity port 0
> 128:1    TiMidity                        TiMidity port 1
> 128:2    TiMidity                        TiMidity port 2
> 128:3    TiMidity                        TiMidity port 3
>
> # aplaymidi -p 128:0 sample.mid  # this works
> # aplaymidi -p 16:0 sample.mid  # this acts like it's doing something
>                                 #  but no sound comes out

Are you /sure/ that there is an on-board synth for this 
card?  For the `-p 16:0` to work you will need to have that. 
A lot of vendors of soundblaster-based cards advertised that 
their cards did this... but in reality they were providing 
some software solution like TiMidity.

The MIDI port you're seeing is probably a game port on your 
device.  So it's just transferring MIDI data and not making 
any noise.

-gabriel


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