[linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve

Timidity is practically unusable with Alsa on my box. In other ways it's only slightly creaky (it's a 3-4 year old AMD 755 box). But there are too many dropouts when I play a multichannel MIDI file for me to use it to proofread my publishing. (Under OSS timidity was fine, but regular readers may remember, my OSS broke when I upgraded to kernel 2.4.26, and I could only get help fixing ALSA, so I'm running ALSA). So I'm trying to set up the hardware MIDI on the SBLive. I'm following the directions at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html> and things look normal. When I run "playmidi -a score.midi", it looks like it's playing, but there isn't any sound. (Yes, the speaker is plugged into the right place.) I've looked at the mixer settings and don't see anything obvious to change. So can anyone give me any advice either about how to get the hardware synth to work or how to get Timidity to work better? One part of my score is a quarter note longer than the others, and I need to find out where this happens. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139