Re: [LAU] Synths (software vs hardware, speed)

On Wed, 22 Aug, 2007 at 01:22PM +0100, Simon Williams spake thus:
> I'm now at the point where I can play midi files, and I have a midi keyboard
> connected and can play sounds to and from that.
> Timidity is rubbish, frankly, so I'm using fluidsynth, which works fine.
> However, for some reason I can't get qsynth to work.
>
> Qsynth1: Failed to create the MIDI driver (alsa_seq). No MIDI input will be
> available.
>
> No matter what settings I try, it always fails. The only useful message I
> ever got was for alsa_raw, when it said that the device didn't exist. For
> some reason I have /dev/snd/midiC1D0, but not /dev/snd/midiC0D0. So I
> temporarily symlinked them, but that didn't help- it wasn't complaining
> about a missing device any more, but it still couldn't create the midi
> driver and still wouldn't tell me why not.
>
> Also, both fluidsynth and timidity are too slow. Midi events are routed
> around instantly (tested with vkeybd and the keyboard I have plugged in),
> but there is a delay in playing anything sent to fluidsynth or timidity-
> about half a second or so. I've tried running fluidsynth with nice -9, but
> that just makes everything else less responsive and doesn't really decrease
> the delay at all. Any suggestions? If I was to buy a decent sound card with
> a hardware synth would this fix it? Would I be able to load enough
> soundfonts into it? What about a pcmcia/cardbus version for my laptop?

This doesn't really answer your question, but if it works, you
might not care...

ZynAddSubFX - http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/

When I first found it, I lost two whole days to just sitting making
noises.
 
James

> Thanks
> Simon
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