Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] soundfonts, iiwusynth and smurf
From: Levi Burton (donburton_AT_sbcglobal.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 04:02:32 EET
Dave,
I will poke around my system and see what I am doing wrong when building
Swami. Thanks for helping me out and for the tip on which devices to use.
Much appreciated =)
P.S.
I am using alsa 0.9.0rc7, gcc 3.2.1 and (attempting to use) Swami 0.9.0.
-Levi
On Monday 17 February 2003 07:41 pm, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Hi Levi:
>
> I just built Swami 0.9.0 without hitting the snag you got, so I'm no
> help there. I did find that Swami doesn't seem to be friendly towards
> ALSA 0.9.0rc6, I had to accept AUTO for the audio driver and OSS &
> /dev/midi00 for MIDI input. It didn't like /dev/snd/midiC0D0 or
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p at all. With the AUTO and OSS settings it works like a
> charm. Not that that's a fat lot of help for you... :(
>
> Btw, are you trying to build 0.9.0 or the pre1 version of Swami ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> == Dave Phillips
>
> The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
> The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
>
> Levi Burton wrote:
> > On Monday 17 February 2003 10:02 am, Dave Phillips wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Using Swami (nee Smurf) is quite intuitive, so I'd say one good way to
> > > begin is by loading a favorite font into Swami and investigating how it
> > > (the font) gets to sound like it does. Check out its basic voice
> > > parameters, then take a look at any keyboard mapping that may be used.
> > > Try turning things on & off to discover what the various functions
> > > actually do. Revise a favorite font, then save it and try loading it
> > > into FluidSynth (nee iiwusynth). Take notes of your progress: editing
> > > and creating your own sounds is a learning process, so you'll want to
> > > start noting where changes in a font yield dramatic effect or where
> > > nothing at all seems to happen (though that "nothing" may come into
> > > play during performance, i.e., a parameter might only be effective
> > > after a certain velocity or key range).
> >
> > Thanks David.
> >
> > I downloaded Swami, and tried to build it, but got some errors (it looks
> > like an object file is not being linked). I sent a message about this to
> > the swami-devel list but have not recieved anything back. Here is a
> > brief snippet of make output:
> >
> > SwamiUIGenGraph.o: In function `swamiui_gengraph_update_control':
> > /home/ldb/src/work/swami/src/gui/SwamiUIGenGraph.c:571: undefined
> > reference to `norm_gen'
> > /home/ldb/src/work/swami/src/gui/SwamiUIGenGraph.c:544: undefined
> > reference to `norm_gen_val'
> > /home/ldb/src/work/swami/src/gui/SwamiUIGenGraph.c:550: undefined
> > reference to `norm_gen_val'
> >
> > [more of the same...]
> >
> > SwamiUIGenGraph.o:/home/ldb/src/work/swami/src/gui/SwamiUIGenGraph.c:526:
> > more undefined references to `norm_gen' follow
> > /usr/bin/ld: SwamiUIGenGraph.o(.debug_info+0x16914): unresolvable
> > relocation against symbol `instp_sample_data_list'
> > /usr/bin/ld: SwamiUIGenGraph.o(.debug_info+0x16ab2): unresolvable
> > relocation against symbol `swami_wavetbl_temp_bank'
> >
> > [more of the same...]
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Levi Burton
> > Programmer/Musician
> > http://www.puresimplicity.net/~ldb/
-- Levi Burton http://www.puresimplicity.net/~ldb/
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