14 Sep
2015
14 Sep
'15
10:49 p.m.
On 09/14/2015 08:42 PM, David Sumbler wrote:
I have hesitated for weeks to post here with such a
basic and possibly
stupid problem, but I am at my wits end with this.
I run Ubuntu 12.04 on a desktop computer and also on a small notebook.
Sound is fine on both of them, and I can play midi files through
tiMidity with no problem.
I want to use a midi-capable electric piano as an input device, and I
reckoned the first thing to do was to get some suitable software and
make sure I could play a midi file from a midi editor.
I have QjackCtl, Qtractor (I also have Muse) and Qsynth installed. I
have spent weeks, on and off, trying to solve the basic problem of
getting some sound from Qtractor (or Muse), but although both the editor
and QjackCtl show that an imported midi file is actually being played, I
get no sound whatsoever. This is true for both computers, even though
their hardware is pretty different. As I said earlier, the sound on
both computers is fine in other contexts, so it is almost certainly some
fundamental error on my part, but I have no idea what is wrong. I have
tried all sorts of different sets of connections in QjackCtl, but never
heard a note yet!
1. make sure qsynth has a proper soundfont file (*.sf2) loaded in;
2. make sure qsynth midi input driver is set to "alsa_seq" and audio
output driver is set to "jack";
3. on qtractor, load the midi file from menu track/import tracks/midi...
or just drag and drop the file into the main canvas;
4. connect qtractor's midi master/out to qsynth/fluidsynth's midi in
(midi tab on qtractor/connections or alsa tab on qjackctl/connections);
5. connect qsynth/fluidsynth's audio outs to system:playback_1,2 (audio
tab on qtractor or qjackctl/connections);
(you can do the above in any order you like, finally...)
6. hit play on qtractor...
voilá!
hth.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela