> 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).
>
>
> 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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>> Vedran
Miletić
>
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