10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
2:16 p.m.
Christian Henz wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:21:04AM -0500, David Evans
wrote:
suse comes with the kaconnect tool which is a graphic midi patchbay.
if you are not scared of building your own software, there's
qjackctl.sourceforge.net, which combines a front-end to the jack
server, and both a jack and alsa midi patchbay. i use it daily, and
it's great imho.
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my computer is a dell dimension, which apparently
has a yamaha xg64v
wavetable card built into the motherboard. suse detected it and called
it a Yamaha DS-XG PCI (YMF724F). it works for playing CDs and mp3s,
using xmms or mpg123. i've read the article at:
http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/4-sequencers_and_softsynths/quick-toot-m…
and with that i got a virtual midi device working. but i don't really
understand what i'm doing there. and hydrogen still makes no sound.
Hydrogen should produce sound as soon as you click on the play buttons in the mixer
window.
To use it with MIDI, you don't need the virtual device. Hydrogen, like other
ALSA-enabled MIDI applications, creates it's own virtual MIDI port (use 'aconnect
-lo' to see it). In order to send MIDI to Hydrogen, you need to connect this port to
some input port (use 'aconnect -li' to see which ones are available).
You can use aconnect or similar tools to make these connections. Sequencer applications
like muse and rosegarden can also do this.