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

From: Dave Phillips <dlphilp@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 23:18:36 EET

Iain Duncan 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.
>
>
> That about sums up my experience, seems kinda tragic. I'll try a
> little longer before resorting to using the Csound5 api to make my own
> python ear training program, which kinda seems like gross overkill ...
>
Well, Florian came up with a workaround solution, proving once again
that there's always some way to do it in Linux... ;)

But you would think that the ALSA sequencer interface would be supported
by now...

Best,

dp
Received on Thu Jan 27 00:15:38 2005

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