Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 19:29:20 EEST
Hi Laura:
I'm using TiMidity on an 800 MHz AMD box with an SBLive Value. Usually
I'm running Planet CCRMA's Red Hat 9, but sometimes I run the AGNULA
distro instead. Both supply a low-latency kernel: are you using a
low-latency system or a standard unpatched kernel ?
If you want to send me the score in question I'll check it on my box.
I've played a lot of dense MIDI files, they work fine.
Also, what does your ~/timidity.cfg look like ? If you don't have one
in your home directory you might find it in your /etc directory.
Best regards,
dp
Laura Conrad wrote:
>Timidity is practically unusable with Alsa on my box. In other ways
>it's only slightly creaky (it's a 3-4 year old AMD 755 box). But
>there are too many dropouts when I play a multichannel MIDI file for
>me to use it to proofread my publishing. (Under OSS timidity was
>fine, but regular readers may remember, my OSS broke when I upgraded
>to kernel 2.4.26, and I could only get help fixing ALSA, so I'm
>running ALSA).
>
>So I'm trying to set up the hardware MIDI on the SBLive. I'm
>following the directions at
><http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html> and things look
>normal. When I run "playmidi -a score.midi", it looks like it's
>playing, but there isn't any sound. (Yes, the speaker is plugged into
>the right place.) I've looked at the mixer settings
>and don't see anything obvious to change.
>
>So can anyone give me any advice either about how to get the hardware
>synth to work or how to get Timidity to work better? One part of my
>score is a quarter note longer than the others, and I need to find out
>where this happens.
>
>
>
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