Re: [LAU] Does my audio card have a hardware MIDI synthesizer?

Hi Cedric,

2010/1/20 Cedric Roux <sed@email-addr-hidden>:
>> You generally won't need one anyways.. You probably just need to load
>> the kernel module snd-seq
>> and make sure that it is loaded at startup.
>
> What do you mean? I want my program to play some audio,
> so I need a synthesizer. I wondered if my card had one.
> It seems that no.
>

These days very few people use the synthesizer of the soundcard. There
are virtually no modern soundcards usable in Linux which have an
internal synthesizer. (mostly I think the same is valid for other
OSes)

These days most people use a software based synthesizer, e.g.
Fluidsynth or Timidity for basic playback. If you want a pro solution
they may be too limited.

I suppose you want to playback sound from a sequencer or midi player.
Just startup the software synthesizer make sure it is routed to the
soundcard, connect it to the player and you should get sound.

/Robert

> Thanks for answers!
> Cédric.
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Received on Wed Jan 20 16:15:04 2010