On Friday 06 January 2006 22:28, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 22:26 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Friday 06 January 2006 19:54, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:20 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > > On Friday 06 January 2006 17:16, Tim Howard wrote:
> > > > > > >>> Any other ideas?
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> Just to verify: you loaded a valid soundfont into the
> > > > > > >> wavetable synth, and you're sure you're sending the MIDI
> > > > > > >> command sequence to the wavetable synth?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have loaded the same soundfont that I use under Windoze, and
> > > > > > > all the instruments show up in Rosegarden... But still no
> > > > > > > sound.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, I did a "cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1" and discovered
> > > > > that the soundfont wasn't actually loading! I hadn't installed the
> > > > > package containing sfxload, so my call to it was failing, and I
> > > > > didn't realize it... Bingo, now it works!
> > > > >
> > > > > > > It's
> > > > > > > probably something ridiculously simple, since I'm new to
> > > > > > > this...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > S'ok. You're right that it usually is something simple, but it
> > > > > > never seems that way until *after* the problem is solved, when
> > > > > > it's easy to call it that!
> > > > >
> > > > > <g> Yep, it was ridiculously simple... Thanks for the help!
> > > >
> > > > Hi Tim. Could you verify something? I only use my Audigy2 soundcard,
> > > > and have the onboard card disabled with the jumpers on the MOBO. Do
> > > > you still have your onboard card enabled? If so, and you're now able
> > > > to play midi files, the fact that Laura still has her onboard card
> > > > enabled, has nothing to do with her inability to play midi files.
> > > >
> > > > Glad you got yours working. Nigel.
> > >
> > > Don't use sfxload use asfxload.
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
> > Hi Lee. I'm not trying to wind you up.
>
> Who said I was wound up, I just said asfxload is the preferred tool to
> load soundfonts. I wasn't aware that not all distros ship it.
Lee. No one is trying to wind you up, or trying to say you are wound up.
I appreciate that asfxload is the correct way to go with Alsa installed, and
will email Fernando at planetccrma to find out why the binary for asfxload
isn't installed with the awesfx package for FC1.2.3, etc. Nigel.
>
> > FC1.2.and 3 only have binaries for
> > sfxload after installing awesfx in /bin. I have iso's for FC4 but am
> > looking for harddrive space for it, but don't expect to see any
> > difference. Debian Sarge does have binaries for asfxload, and sfxload, so
> > no problem there. Slackware 10.0 (and I know thats a bit ancient) has
> > both asfxload, and sfxload, but asfxload refuses to load the soundfont,
> > whereas sfxload does. I havn't tried Gentoo, just got a bit fedup in
> > booting up distro's. Tell me please. Just what is the difference. If i
> > load a sounfont using sfxload, then play a midi file. Is this midi file
> > taking a different path to my speakers, than if I'd loaded the soundfont
> > using asfxload. I'm almost 100% Alsa, apart from one FC1 install thats
> > still using OSS, but thats just for email, webbrowsing, and a bit of
> > Internet radio live audio streams. I'm all for Alsa, and if awesfx on
> > FC1,2 and 3 had the asfxload binary I would be using it. This appears to
> > be a distro thing, rather than an Alsa problem, but as far as I'm
> > concerned, as long as I can load soundfonts, whether it's by sfxload, or
> > asfxload, I don't care, as long as I can use midi files I will continue
> > to suggest using sfxload, because at least I know this works, and whats
> > the point of suggesting asfxload if the binary doesn't exist on your
> > distro. Nigel (trying not to cause any offence)
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