Ok. Maybe I'm not understanding something fundamental here. If so, I would really appreciate it if someone could explain it to me. I have been told twice now that I need to load a soundfont into my SB card. Why??? A soundfont is just a collection of sounds to be played by midi instructions, and I really don't care about 'sounds' at all at this point (i'm going to use Zyn or QSynth anyway). Right now, I just want to see if the data being sent by my keyboard is being received/processed by my soundcard. I know there are simple ways of checking this, such as,
amidi -p myport -d or
dd if=/dev/snd/midiC2D{0,1} bs=1
(i think these should work). I have tried loading soundfonts into my card with asfxload or whatever that program is called and nothing changed, of course, because the problem is that my soundcard is not processing the midi signals in the first place (unless the soundfont loading does some sort of initialization of the Live Drive, but... then it should have worked, and it didn't). I have gotten midi in to work with this soundcard on older versions of fedora core (with older versions of alsa i'm sure).
amidi -p myport -d or
dd if=/dev/snd/midiC2D{0,1} bs=1
(i think these should work). I have tried loading soundfonts into my card with asfxload or whatever that program is called and nothing changed, of course, because the problem is that my soundcard is not processing the midi signals in the first place (unless the soundfont loading does some sort of initialization of the Live Drive, but... then it should have worked, and it didn't). I have gotten midi in to work with this soundcard on older versions of fedora core (with older versions of alsa i'm sure).
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You need to load the soundfont, of course, and then connect input to
sampler using qjackctl. There is no need to run jack all the time, it
works without it too.
2008/10/18 Carl Bauer <carl.a.bauer@xxxxxxxxx>:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------> I am trying to get my Audigy 2 ZS card to recognize signals from my Korg
> SP-200 keyboard. I am using the midi input jack on the audigy's live drive
> front panel thingy. I am using an up-to-date Fedora Core 9.
>
> The problems I have encountered and things I have already tried are
> described best in this post:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=198240
>
> I've seen this problem elsewhere:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476633
>
> Is midi in on this card supported by emu10k1?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
>
> Here is my sound system according to aadebug:
>
> ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Sat Oct 18 11:49:32 MDT 2008
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
>
> Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20 03:45:00
> EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
> snd_seq_midi 9728 0
> snd_emu10k1_synth 9600 0
> snd_emux_synth 31488 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_seq_virmidi 8832 1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_midi_emul 8960 1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_emu10k1 127620 4 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_rawmidi 21248 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
> snd_ac97_codec 93604 1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_hda_intel 321692 2
> snd_seq_dummy 6532 0
> snd_seq_oss 29212 0
> snd_seq_midi_event 9600 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq 44736 9
> snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_pcm_oss 36480 0
> snd_mixer_oss 16384 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 60676 4
> snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_device 9740 8
> snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> snd_timer 20744 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem 7296 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_page_alloc 11016 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> snd_hwdep 10244 3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel
> snd 46136 24
> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
>
> Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
>
> Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
> 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> HDA Intel at 0xf8200000 irq 22
> 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
> HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf5010000 irq 17
> 2 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]
> Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] (rev.4, serial:0x20021102) at
> 0xd000, irq 18
> 2: : timer
> 3: : sequencer
> 4: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
> 5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
> 6: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
> 7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
> 8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
> 9: [ 0- 2]: hardware dependent
> 10: [ 0] : control
> 11: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback
> 12: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent
> 13: [ 1] : control
> 14: [ 2- 0]: hardware dependent
> 15: [ 2- 1]: raw midi
> 16: [ 2- 0]: raw midi
> 17: [ 2- 4]: digital audio playback
> 18: [ 2- 4]: digital audio capture
> 19: [ 2- 3]: digital audio playback
> 20: [ 2- 2]: digital audio playback
> 21: [ 2- 2]: digital audio capture
> 22: [ 2- 1]: digital audio capture
> 23: [ 2- 0]: digital audio playback
> 24: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture
> 25: [ 2] : control
> 26: [ 2- 2]: hardware dependent
> 27: [ 2- 2]: raw midi
> 28: [ 2- 3]: raw midi
> 00-02: HDA Codec 2
> 01-00: HDA Codec 0
> 02-00: EMU10K1 (FX8010)
> 02-02: Emux WaveTable
> 00-02: ALC882 Analog : ALC882 Analog : capture 2
> 00-01: ALC882 Digital : ALC882 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
> 00-00: ALC882 Analog : ALC882 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
> 01-03: ATI HDMI : ATI HDMI : playback 1
> 02-04: p16v : p16v : playback 1 : capture 1
> 02-03: emu10k1 : Multichannel Playback : playback 1
> 02-02: emu10k1 efx : Multichannel Capture/PT Playback : playback 8 : capture
> 1
> 02-01: emu10k1 mic : Mic Capture : capture 1
> 02-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback : playback 32 : capture 1
> Client info
> cur clients : 5
> peak clients : 6
> max clients : 192
>
> Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
> Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
> Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
> Connecting To: 15:0
> Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
> Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
> Client 15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
> Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
> Connected From: 0:1
> Client 24 : "Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]" [Kernel]
> Port 0 : "Audigy MPU-401 (UART)" (RWeX)
> Port 32 : "Audigy MPU-401 #2" (RWeX)
> Client 25 : "Emu10k1 WaveTable" [Kernel]
> Port 0 : "Emu10k1 Port 0" (-We-)
> Port 1 : "Emu10k1 Port 1" (-We-)
> Port 2 : "Emu10k1 Port 2" (-We-)
> Port 3 : "Emu10k1 Port 3" (-We-)
>
> Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
> controlC0 hwC1D0 midiC2D1 pcmC0D0p pcmC1D3p pcmC2D2c pcmC2D4p
> controlC1 hwC2D0 midiC2D2 pcmC0D1c pcmC2D0c pcmC2D2p seq
> controlC2 hwC2D2 midiC2D3 pcmC0D1p pcmC2D0p pcmC2D3p timer
> hwC0D2 midiC2D0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D2c pcmC2D1c pcmC2D4c
>
> CPU -------------------------------------------------------
> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
> cpu MHz : 2000.000
> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
> cpu MHz : 2000.000
>
> RAM -------------------------------------------------------
> MemTotal: 2073896 kB
> SwapTotal: 2031608 kB
>
> Hardware --------------------------------------------------
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM
> Controller (rev 02)
> 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
>
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