Hello! Well, I finally have fluidsynth running on alsa. The 'not starting' problem was solved with getting the right version of alsa-lib; the 'no MIDI input' problem goes away by 'aconnect 64 128' when fluidsynth is already running. But, even though I run it as root, fluidsynth's sound still audibly breaks on a cpu/disk intensive operation - I tested it with starting OpenOffice and with running sxid. Is there any way to fix this? And should I try installing Timidity for such cases? I just want the synth to work in parallel with regular work. -- Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
