On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Gardner wrote: >> First, with my older motherboard, I could control the various output >> and input levels of the channels. With this motherboard, I only have >> one channel "Internal Audio Analog Stereo". > > This looks like PulseAudio's idea of a user-friendly abstraction. > Try "alsamixer -D hw:0". > Beautiful. That's what I'm looking for. So should I work with PulseAudio to get their GUI working with my particular situation? >> Second, I never really got MIDI working, at least not that I recall in >> my 10 years of Linux. I know MIDI is possible, I just don't know what >> it takes. I've been playing with musescore which apparently plays the >> notes over MIDI so you can hear what you wrote, which would be nice. > > Your mainboard doesn't support MIDI, but I guess you don't have any > external MIDI devices anyway. > > To play back MIDI data, you need some synthesizer. Try FluidSynth. > I'm playing around with qsynth and pianobooster. No success with sound yet, but I'm keeping notes. -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
