12 Jan
2006
12 Jan
'06
4:51 p.m.
Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed to do midi
according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which is
quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or .ogg based
effects work rather nicely, but the midi test seems to be a total non
performer.
I have this Audigy defined as snd-card-0 in my modules.conf, and here is
a cat of /proc/asound/cards:
----------
0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0x9000, irq 20
1 [nForce2 ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2
NVidia nForce2 with ALC655 at 0xed001000, irq 17
----------
And:
----------
# cat /proc/asound/oss/devices
0: [0- 0]: mixer
1: : sequencer
2: [0- 0]: raw midi
3: [0- 0]: digital audio
4: [0- 0]: digital audio
8: : sequencer
9: [0- 0]: raw midi
12: [0- 1]: digital audio
13: [0- 1]: raw midi
14: [0- 1]: raw midi
16: [1- 0]: mixer
19: [1- 0]: digital audio
20: [1- 0]: digital audio
28: [1- 1]: digital audio
-----------
And:
-----------
# cat /proc/asound/seq/*
Client info
cur clients : 5
peak clients : 6
max clients : 192
Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
Connecting To: 15:0
Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
Client 15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
Connected From: 0:1
Output pool :
Pool size : 1024
Cells in use : 0
Peak cells in use : 1
Alloc success : 401
Alloc failures : 0
Client 16 : "Audigy MPU-401 #2" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Audigy MPU-401 (UART)" (RWeX)
Port 32 : "Audigy MPU-401 #2" (RWeX)
Client 17 : "Emu10k1 WaveTable" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Emu10k1 Port 0" (-We-)
Port 1 : "Emu10k1 Port 1" (-We-)
Port 2 : "Emu10k1 Port 2" (-We-)
Port 3 : "Emu10k1 Port 3" (-We-)
snd-emu10k1-synth,loaded,1
snd-seq-midi,loaded,2
snd-seq-oss,loaded,1
OSS sequencer emulation version 0.1.8
ALSA client number 15
ALSA receiver port 0
Number of applications: 0
Number of synth devices: 1
synth 0: [Emu10k1]
type 0x1 : subtype 0x20 : voices 64
capabilities : ioctl enabled / load_patch enabled
Number of MIDI devices: 7
midi 0: [Midi Through Port-0] ALSA port 14:0
capability read/write / opened none
midi 1: [Audigy MPU-401 (UART)] ALSA port 16:0
capability read/write / opened none
midi 2: [Audigy MPU-401 #2] ALSA port 16:32
capability read/write / opened none
midi 3: [Emu10k1 Port 0] ALSA port 17:0
capability write / opened none
midi 4: [Emu10k1 Port 1] ALSA port 17:1
capability write / opened none
midi 5: [Emu10k1 Port 2] ALSA port 17:2
capability write / opened none
midi 6: [Emu10k1 Port 3] ALSA port 17:3
capability write / opened none
---------
So that looks as if it should be raring to go.
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0- devices is either a no
such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
Whats the next thing to check here?
--
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
12 Jan
12 Jan
5:11 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed to do midi
according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which is
quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or .ogg based
effects work rather nicely, but the midi test seems to be a total non
performer.
You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0- devices
is either a no
such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid file to a
device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee
9:28 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback, back it up or
just stop it, once it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed
to do midi according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which
is quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or
.ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test
seems to be a total non performer.
You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0-
devices is either a no
such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid file
to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee
9:36 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
Ctrl-Z
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed
to do midi according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which
is quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or
.ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test
seems to be a total non performer.
You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0-
devices is either a no
such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid file
to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee , back it up
You can't do that
or
just stop it
Ctrl-C
, once it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me
nothing.
You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI playback,
aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy basically.
Lee
10:03 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:36, Lee Revell wrote:
Ctrl-Z
How do I restart it?
I guess I can't forward either?
Elegant in it's simplicity.
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with pause, back
up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that allows
the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
on midi playback.
By the way, could you comment on my recent question on tuning
a midi keyboard?
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
<snip>
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just
cat a .mid
file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback , back it up
You can't do that
or
just stop it
Ctrl-C
, once
it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI
playback, aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy basically.
Lee 
10:13 p.m.
On 1/12/06, M P Smoak <smoak(a)mis.net> wrote:
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with pause, back
up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that allows
the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
on midi playback.
By the way, could you comment on my recent question on tuning
a midi keyboard?
Rosegarden?
Muse?
- Mark
10:18 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:13, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 1/12/06, M P Smoak <smoak(a)mis.net> wrote:
I need to run a sequencer to tune? Doesn't that seem a bit odd?
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed
with pause,
back up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that
allows the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
on midi playback.
By the way, could you comment on my recent question on
tuning a midi keyboard?
Rosegarden?
Muse?
- Mark
10:22 p.m.
On 1/12/06, M P Smoak <smoak(a)mis.net> wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:13, Mark Knecht wrote:
I need to run a sequencer to tune? Doesn't that seem a bit odd?
Sorry - I didn't think I was responding to that question as much as to
your comment about playing MIDI. Can you not tune the keyboard/synth
in it's own domain? Why use MIDI at all? Or is this a sound module? If
so you need either a keyboard driving it directly or a sequencer
making it play notes.
I hope I'm not misunderstanding your need here. I didn't pay attention
to the earliest part of this thread.
Cheers,
Mark
By the way, could you comment on my recent
question on
tuning a midi keyboard?
Rosegarden?
Muse?
- Mark
10:39 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:22, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 1/12/06, M P Smoak <smoak(a)mis.net> wrote:
Have a look at my post "Midi tuning control" on the 10th of
this month. Any help on that simple need will be greatly
appreciated.
Marv
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:13, Mark Knecht
wrote:
I need to run a sequencer to tune? Doesn't that seem a bit
odd?
Sorry - I didn't think I was responding to that question as
much as to your comment about playing MIDI. Can you not tune
the keyboard/synth in it's own domain? Why use MIDI at all? Or
is this a sound module? If so you need either a keyboard
driving it directly or a sequencer making it play notes.
I hope I'm not misunderstanding your need here. I didn't pay
attention to the earliest part of this thread.
Cheers,
Mark By the
way, could you comment on my recent question on
tuning a midi keyboard?
Rosegarden?
Muse?
- Mark
10:47 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:08, M P Smoak wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:36, Lee Revell wrote:
Ctrl-Z
How do I restart it?
I guess I can't forward either?
Elegant in it's simplicity.
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with pause, back
up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that allows
the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
on midi playback.
If you have kde installed, take a look at kmid.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak
wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
<snip>
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just
cat a .mid
file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback , back it
up
You can't do that or
just stop it
Ctrl-C , once
it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI
playback, aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy basically.
Lee By the way, could you comment on my recent question on
tuning
a midi keyboard?
Its probably more accurate than the piano tuners tuning forks if its had
any fine tuning done reset back to no corrections. The crystals used
as the reference generators are typically better than .001% accurate
and you can tune the piano/whatever to the keyboard with good
confidence that you are at least as correct as the tuning fork the
piano tuner used to use.
--
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
11:04 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:08, M P Smoak wrote:
Please see my post on 2006-01-10 subject Midi tuning control.
Thanks.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:36, Lee Revell
wrote:
How do I restart it?
I guess I can't forward either?
Elegant in it's simplicity.
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with pause,
back up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that
allows the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
on midi playback.
If you have kde installed, take a look at kmid.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak
wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
<snip>
>
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a
> .mid file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
>
> Lee
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback
Ctrl-Z , back it
up
You can't do that or
just stop it
Ctrl-C , once
it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI
playback, aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy
basically.
Lee By the way, could you comment on my recent
question on tuning
a midi keyboard?
Its probably more accurate than the piano tuners tuning forks
if its had any fine tuning done reset back to no corrections.
The crystals used as the reference generators are typically
better than .001% accurate and you can tune the piano/whatever
to the keyboard with good confidence that you are at least as
correct as the tuning fork the piano tuner used to use.
11:10 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:08 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
Did you not see Tim Hall's response?
Lee
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:08, M P Smoak
wrote:
Please see my post on 2006-01-10 subject Midi tuning control.
Thanks.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:36, Lee Revell
wrote:
If you have kde installed, take a look at kmid.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak
wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
<snip>
> > That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you
can't just cat a
> > .mid file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
> >
> > Lee
>
> Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback
Ctrl-Z
How do I restart it?
> , back it up
You can't do that
I guess I can't forward either?
> or
> just stop it
Ctrl-C
Elegant in it's simplicity.
> , once it's playing. man aplaymidi
tells me nothing.
You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI
playback, aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy
basically.
Lee
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with pause,
back up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that
allows the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
on midi playback. By the way, could you comment on my recent
question on tuning
a midi keyboard?
Its probably more accurate than the piano tuners tuning forks
if its had any fine tuning done reset back to no corrections.
The crystals used as the reference generators are typically
better than .001% accurate and you can tune the piano/whatever
to the keyboard with good confidence that you are at least as
correct as the tuning fork the piano tuner used to use.
11:30 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 22:10, Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:08 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
Yes, and I'm trying to compose a reply; briefly I don't need
microtuning for special scales. I need a tuning slider. Is that
so much to ask. And I don't prefer to run a sequencer or soft
synth to get it.
Thanks for you interest; I'm a bit po'ed about life-in-general
tonight and a bit into the scotch. But I do think I'm needing
things that a musician/desktop user needs. Players, tuners don't
seem like rocket science to me.
Again thanks. (ps I'm getting an audigiy card and upgrading to
planetccrma/fc? "some time soon" (so say the guy who's helping me
with the new machine)
On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:47, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Did you not see Tim Hall's response?
Lee On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:08, M P Smoak
wrote:
Please see my post on 2006-01-10 subject Midi tuning
control. Thanks. On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:36, Lee Revell
wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
<snip>
> > > That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat
> > > a .mid file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
> > Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback
>
> Ctrl-Z
How do I restart it?
> > , back it up
>
> You can't do that
I guess I can't forward either?
> > or
> > just stop it
>
> Ctrl-C
Elegant in it's simplicity.
> > , once it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
>
> You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured
> MIDI playback, aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a
> toy basically.
>
> Lee
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with
pause, back up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that
allows the simple controls of a tape player?
I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player
there. I figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there
none?
Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc??
kernel?
If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real
weak on midi playback.
If you have kde installed, take a look at kmid.
By the way, could you comment on my recent
question on
tuning a midi keyboard?
Its probably more accurate than the piano tuners tuning
forks if its had any fine tuning done reset back to no
corrections. The crystals used as the reference generators
are typically better than .001% accurate and you can tune
the piano/whatever to the keyboard with good confidence
that you are at least as correct as the tuning fork the
piano tuner used to use. 
13 Jan
13 Jan
10:26 a.m.
On Friday 13 January 2006 02:08, M P Smoak was like:
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with
pause, back
up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that allows
the simple controls of a tape player?
Yes, because if it did that it would be a sequencer by definition. Most people
use Timidity++ as their starting point.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
12:48 p.m.
On Friday 13 January 2006 15:26, tim hall wrote:
On Friday 13 January 2006 02:08, M P Smoak was like:
Hi Tim. This is sort of a reply to M P Smoak, but also a question to you.
The reply: Kmid does work ok as a basic midiplayer, but only directly through
your soundcard if you have a Creative card with EMU driver. You need to have
a soundfont loaded on the card, the snd-emu10k1-synth module loaded, and make
sure that in Kmids "Settings" / "Midi-setup" you have a route to one
of the
emu10k1 wavetable ports. It does crash now and then.
The question: On FC1 I used to use Kmidi that used TiMidity, and that worked
fine, but seems to have been dropped with the change to the 2.6 kernel. Do
you know if there is a front end to TiMidity? The Sourceforge page for it
shows a GUI, and there is also a link on that page to a Japanese site, from
which I got a shell script for a GUI, but was not able to run it. Perhaps my
own lack of knowledge, but will have another look at it. Any other
suggestions for a GUI would be welcome. I did try installing from the
tarball, but there are so many ./configure options for audio, and GUI's that
I got quite lost. If you have a set of options that you know work
with ./configure for FC2,3 I'd be very gratefull. Nigel.
BTW. Theres another Icon attached below for Specimen. I don't think I've sent
this already. it hasn't been sent to the author for approval, and is a bit
(no offence) girly looking, colour wise, but is better than staring at a
binary gear icon.
You mean to say that to play back a midi filed
with pause, back
up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that allows
the simple controls of a tape player?
Yes, because if it did that it would be a sequencer by definition. Most
people use Timidity++ as their starting point. 
1:07 p.m.
Nigel Henry wrote:
Do you know if there is a front end to TiMidity? The
Sourceforge page for it
shows a GUI, and there is also a link on that page to a Japanese site, from
which I got a shell script for a GUI, but was not able to run it. Perhaps my
own lack of knowledge, but will have another look at it. Any other
suggestions for a GUI would be welcome. I did try installing from the
tarball, but there are so many ./configure options for audio, and GUI's that
I got quite lost. If you have a set of options that you know work
with ./configure for FC2,3 I'd be very gratefull.
'man timidity' is your friend. See the -i option.
On Marv's system TiMidity has been compiled to support only the GTK and
Xaw graphic interfaces. However, both of those GUIs include the
transport controls that Marv asked about.
So for Marv's PlanetC RH9 :
timidity -ig foo.mid
or
timidity -ia foo.mid
Best,
dp
2:03 p.m.
On Friday 13 January 2006 18:29, Dave Phillips wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
Hi Dave. I had tried those options before on FC2, but trying them again, all I
get back is. "Interface 'g' or 'a' is not compiled in. Weird. This
is
timidity++-2.11.3-9, installed via apt-get from planetccrma. I know
TiMidity++-2.13 is now available, but cannot understand why GUI's havn't been
compiled in. I will have another go at the tarball install. What I'm really
looking for is a way of configuring TiMidity, so that I can then set up a
desktop link to application, which will bring up a GUI similar to what I had
with Kmidi, and can then load a midi file, and play it. Please don't get me
wrong. I'm not afraid of the CLI. Running tools like oggenc, oggdec, etc, is
no problem to me. It's just that playing music files, whether they
are .ogg, .wav, .mid, or whatever, is just a bit more user friendly with a
GUI than the CLI. I'm not giving up on this, as TiMidity is a really good
synth, and you're not tied down to having to have a sound card that is
capable of using soundfonts.. Thanks for the reply. Nigel.
Do you know if there is a front end to TiMidity?
The Sourceforge page for
it shows a GUI, and there is also a link on that page to a Japanese site,
from which I got a shell script for a GUI, but was not able to run it.
Perhaps my own lack of knowledge, but will have another look at it. Any
other suggestions for a GUI would be welcome. I did try installing from
the tarball, but there are so many ./configure options for audio, and
GUI's that I got quite lost. If you have a set of options that you know
work with ./configure for FC2,3 I'd be very gratefull.
'man timidity' is your friend. See the -i option.
On Marv's system TiMidity has been compiled to support only the GTK and
Xaw graphic interfaces. However, both of those GUIs include the
transport controls that Marv asked about.
So for Marv's PlanetC RH9 :
timidity -ig foo.mid
or
timidity -ia foo.mid
Best,
dp
14 Jan
14 Jan
8:58 a.m.
On Friday 13 January 2006 16:48, Nigel Henry was like:
The question: On FC1 I used to use Kmidi that used
TiMidity, and that
worked fine, but seems to have been dropped with the change to the 2.6
kernel. Do you know if there is a front end to TiMidity? The Sourceforge
page for it shows a GUI, and there is also a link on that page to a
Japanese site, from which I got a shell script for a GUI, but was not able
to run it. Perhaps my own lack of knowledge, but will have another look at
it. Any other suggestions for a GUI would be welcome. I did try installing
from the tarball, but there are so many ./configure options for audio, and
GUI's that I got quite lost. If you have a set of options that you know
work
with ./configure for FC2,3 I'd be very gratefull. Nigel.
Sure it does, several.
man timidity
----
-i mode, --interface=mode
--realtime-priority=n
--sequencer-ports=n
Selects the user interfaces from the compiled-in alternatives.
mode must be begun with one of the supported interface identi-
fiers. Run TiMidity++ with the -h option to see a list.
For ALSA sequencer interface, optionally to use --realtime-pri-
ority, set the realtime priority by n, and to use
--sequencer-ports, set the number of opened sequencer ports.
Default value is 4.
The following identifiers may be available:
-id dumb interface
-in ncurses interface
-is S-Lang interface
-ia X Athena Widget interface
-ik Tcl/Tk interface
-im Motif interface
-iT vt100 interface
-ie Emacs interface
(use ``M-x timidity'' in Emacs)
-ii skin interface
Environment variable TIMIDITY_SKIN must be set to the
path of the skin data (compressed data are also sup-
ported).
-ig GTK+ interface
-ir Launch TiMidity++ as MIDI server.
-iA Launch TiMidity++ as ALSA sequencer client.
-iW Windodws synthesizer interface
-iw Windodws GUI interface
-iP PortMIDI synthesizer interface
-ip UMP interface
----
I tend to use the -ig interface.
BTW. Theres another Icon attached below for Specimen.
I don't think I've
sent this already. it hasn't been sent to the author for approval, and is a
bit (no offence) girly looking, colour wise, but is better than staring at
a binary gear icon.
I like the concept, bear in mind that Ipx wide lines in a 64x64 icon will
disappear when it gets reduced to smaller sizes (as it inevitably does. I
like the concept, but I would remove all the lettering and notes and perhaps
just have a waveform in the specimen jar.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
12 Jan
12 Jan
9:49 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:32, M P Smoak wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
If you have kde, try kmid, it works for all that.
--
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback, back it up or
just stop it, once it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing. Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed
to do midi according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which
is quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or
.ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test
seems to be a total non performer.
You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0-
devices is either a no
such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid file
to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee
10:14 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:49, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:32, M P Smoak wrote:
No joy:
kmid /home/marv/Marv/enchanted-island.mid
KMid 2.0 Copyright (C) 1997,98,99,2000,01 Antonio Larrosa
Jimenez. Malaga (Spain)
KMid comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details view file
COPYING
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions
Sorry, this KMid version was compiled without
ALSA support but you're using ALSA .
Please compile KMid for yourself or tell the people
at your Linux distribution to compile it themselves
Player :: There are no midi ports !
I'm running planetccrma/rh9.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell
wrote:
If you have kde, try kmid, it works for all that. On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback, back it up
or just stop it, once it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me
nothing. Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is
supposed to do midi according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and
are modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod
listing which is quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or
.ogg based effects work rather nicely, but the midi test
seems to be a total non performer.
You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0-
devices is either a
no such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or
less.
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid
file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
Lee
9:48 p.m.
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
So I've now been told. And I haven't tried aplaymidi yet because kmid
works well ince I'd used sfxload to intall a soundfont, the big one on
the Audigy drivers cd.
Thanks, Lee.
--
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Greetings;
I have installed an Audigy 2 value board which is supposed to do
midi according to the propaganda.
Kernel is 2.6.15, with all revelant audio as modules and are
modprobe.conf-iged in and showing in the lsmod listing which is
quite bulky so I won't post that list.
In kde's control center, under sound, the normal, .wav or .ogg based
effects work rather nicely, but the midi test seems to be a total
non performer.
You have to load a soundfont using "asfxload".
'cat'ing a .mid file to any of the 0-
devices is either a no
such device error, or returns silently in 1 second or less.
That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a .mid file to a
device node. Use aplaymidi.
7022
days inactive
7024
days old
linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
20 comments
7 participants
participants (7)
-
Dave Phillips -
Gene Heskett -
Lee Revell -
M P Smoak -
Mark Knecht -
Nigel Henry -
tim hall