2 Aug
2005
2 Aug
'05
7:27 a.m.
Last Tuesday 02 August 2005 02:15, PhilJackson was like:
Hi Christoph,
You can get vkeybd from A/DeMuDi - you could possibly make life easier for
yourself by including these sources:
http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/InstallApt
See also:
http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/DocumentsFaq
Much of this applies to making music on any Debian system.
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
let me summarize:
* JACK runs well on top of your card. Did you try if audio
output via any JACK application works? I'd try playing an mp3
or ogg file with xmms via its JACK output plugin. But
currently you try to get MIDI working so this isn't urgent
Now that is an interesting question! I usually download/play mp3s
using alsaplayer, which seems the default. Xine usually plays my
CDs. When I open up XMMS with nothing else running except
browser and email client and go to Preferences / Audio - IO plugins,
I see Alsa,DiskWriter, eSound, and OSS as options. No mention of
Jack. I am quite newbie enough to not know if there is a sequence
of operations - i.e this has to be already running and that has to be
running....would think things should instantiate themselves as needed.
* The Card appears in ALSA as a writable MIDI
port, correct?
I think it is 64:0 CS46XX.
* If so you should test if MIDI goes out of the
card. The
simplest way to do so is running something like vkeybd, an
onscreen MIDI keyboard. If you haven't it install, please try
installing it.
I looked, and my package manager doesn't have anything like
that. pmidi or rosegarden should be able to send MIDI to the
card....
* It is important to know that Linux has very
flexible MIDI
routing abilities thanks to the ALSA sequencer. OTOH, this
means that MIDI applications usually don't connect
automatically. Use qjackctl, Connections, MIDI to connect the
vkeybd to the MIDI out port of your card.
* Use the mouse or the computer keyboard to play some notes.
Does the Soundcanvas receive MIDI data?
Yes, it seems that it does. Maybe I have an unfortunate mix
of hardware / software?