[linux-audio-user] MIDI stopped working

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:25 -0500, John Check wrote:
> On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:31 pm, MarC wrote:
> > I upgraded my debian testing and now MIDI doesn't work anymore.
> > Before I could load soundfonts normally and now I get:
> >
> > marc at marcbcn:~$ sfxload
> > No AWE synth device is found
> >
> > any clue about how to solve it? (google wasn't enough...)
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > I wouldn't be a debian user without such great mailing lists as LAU and
> > debian-users...
> 
> I'm running unstable but, assuming it's a SoundBlaster Live!, you need the 
> emu10k1-synth module loaded.
> Easy fix is load it with modconf, an arguably "better" solution is to add a 
> post-install line  to /etc/modutils/alsa:
> 
> post-install snd-emu10k1 modprobe snd-emu10k1-synth
> 
> don't forget to run update-modules. I load my default soundfont the same way.
> 
> I'll indulge myself with some pedanticism here and mention FYI that MIDI 
> doesn't make any noise. It's yer wavetable that stopped working... Anyway
> loading the wavetable module is what you need.
> 

Also assuming you want to use native ALSA apps, you should use asfxload,
not sfxload.  sfxload will only load the soundfont for OSS emulation
mode (/dev/sequencer).

Lee