On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 00:07 -0500, PhilJackson wrote: > Lee, > > I am coming from a Windows environement where MIDI and such just > "works" . OK, this is a common point of confusion, because Windows and MacOS come with a toy softsynth, so you can just double click on a .mid file and hear sound. On linux, to do the same you would have to run a soft synth like Fluidsynth. Launching the softsynth will cause an input MIDI port and output Audio port to appear in qjackctl, and you'd just connect the output of fluidsynth to the ALSA playback input of alsa_playback to hear the sound. > Joystick port - at this point I am unsure of most anything. In this > machine's previous life as a Win ME machine it did work, though with a > different soundcard. OK. It's not clear that ALSA is seeing this port. Lee
