Re: [linux-audio-user] Solfege on gentoo?

From: Iain Duncan <iainduncan@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 10:24:31 EET

Awesome Florian, I got that to work with pmidi. I will add your
instructions to the Solfege wiki, where it really does not explain that
technique very well for newbies!

Thanks you soooo much,
iain

Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:18:14 -0500
> Dave Phillips <dlphilp@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> I just took a look at the audio preferences for 2.0.2, there's no
>>provision for anything ALSA. :(
>>
>> The other options offered were /dev/sequencer, /dev/sequencer2,
>>/dev/music, and none. Selecting /dev/sequencer2 and /dev/music gave me
>>error messages, /dev/sequencer was selected without error but I got no
>>sound from the test. No MIDI activity appeared on my patchbay.
>>
>> The Solfege Web site includes instructions for wedding timidity to
>>/dev/music. Didn't work for me though, I still received the error for
>>/dev/music.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> easy workaround:
>
> Check "use external midiplayer" and enter:
>
> aplaymidi -p 129:0 %s
>
> Change the 129:0 to the corresponding port, of course [i use fluidsynth
> and it happens to open port 129:0 if it's the only midi app on my system
> :)] I suppose it would be possible to automate this: If you know you
> always use fluidsynth, it is possible to replace aplaymidi with a script
> that parses the output of
>
> aconnect -io | grep -i fluid
>
> and calls aplaymidi with the right -p parameter.. my own shell skillz
> are to n00b though..
>
> Flo
>
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