Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] playmidi problem
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 16:37:21 EET
Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Under alsa 0.9betaX playmidi also doesn't work. I have given up on this
> program, because I never found out, why it wouldn't work. [And now my
> Soundblaster live is broken, so I don't have the emu-synth anymore...bye
> midi;)]
Josh Green wrote:
> Try iiwusynth (http://www.iiwu.org/iiwusynth/). It supports ALSA andsound fonts.
Thanks for the feedback, guys. I tried some kludge hacking on playmidi
over the weekend, didn't really put much effort into it, but I could not
get it to work under ALSA.
Now to the point: playmidi routes to the external MIDI hardware
perfectly under OSS/Linux. So, I think I can safely state that ALSA's
OSS emulation is incomplete, yes ? That's disappointing, being so near
the 1.0 release. I have some concern for other legacy apps that require
/dev/sequencer.
OTOH, it may be that the OSS API regarding /dev/sequencer has changed
since playmidi 2.4 ? I'll try to spend a little more time on this
problem, because we currently do not have a solution for it. And we
should have a command-line MIDI file player that can send its output to
an external MIDI port.
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://sound.condorow.net
Currently listening to: Harold Budd & Brian Eno, "Among Fields Of
Crystal"
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