Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI on alsa with SBLIve
From: Janina Sajka (janina_AT_rednote.net)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 19:12:33 EEST
Just for comparison, I'm running timidity without problems on an old
Pentium 3 at 350 Mhz with only 192 Mb of RAM.
You might need to give up on playmidi and use aplaymidi which is native
alsa for driving hw synths, though I haven't spent much time on this.
Still, timidity is running smoothly with my SB Live 1 card. I'm using
the timidity-eawpats-12-1 from CCRMA for my sound fonts.
Laura Conrad writes:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Laura (mailto:lconrad_AT_laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
> (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011
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>
-- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)janina_AT_freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
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