hi, i've got alsa from cvs (/proc/asound/version says 0.9.0rc6) and iiwusynth from cvs (reported as 0.2.4 at startup). I also tried iiwusynth 0.2.2 from tarball, with the same result. What's happening: I've got a raw midi input device at /dev/snd/midiC1D0 (/dev/midi01). I've compiled iiwusynth OK (without readline) and it can run fine with alsa's oss midi emulation: $ iiwusynth -a alsa -m oss -M /dev/midi01 ... and it responds to my keyboard just great. Try to use ALSA and I get no joy: $ iiwusynth -a alsa -m alsa -M /dev/amidi1 ~/Unshared/Sounds/soundfonts/drums/arap.SF2 iiwusynth: warning: Couldn't set high priority scheduling for the audio output iiwusynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is possible. ALSA lib rawmidi.c:280:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi /dev/amidi1 It doesn't seem to matter what I use for the -M argument... any ideas? Is current iiwusynth broken wrt. current ALSA? -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"