Good night, One creative sound blaster card live of audigy of awe is needed..One soundfont for the card; it is in the cd of installation of card. Alsa, Alsa-driver. the program sfxload etc.... See http://www.google.be/search?hl=fr&q=midi+and+linux&btnG=Rechercher&meta= Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Phillips" <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Sean Bolton" <musound@xxxxxxx> Cc: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Call for WhySynth presets > Sean Bolton wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> On Dec 28, 2005, at 4:26 AM, Dave Phillips wrote: >> >>> A few questions re: your excellent WhySynth : >>> >>> WS seems weird wrt MIDI program change. Am I missing something ? >>> Sending a change from a sequencer or keyboard doesn't match the default >>> list of voices. PC 0 selects a sound all right, but it's not the Slow >>> Strings at position 0 in the default patch list. What is MIDI PC >>> actually selecting ? >>> >>> Edits made to a patch don't take effect in realtime, or am I missing >>> something again ? >> >> >> Yeah, something's weird -- on my systems, WhySynth responds >> as one would expect to program changes coming from external >> sources, and patch edits take effect in real time for everything >> except the envelopes (where they take effect on the next note >> played.) >> >> When you send a PC from an external source, does the high- >> lighted patch in the GUI patch list change? Are you using bank >> select (which might mean program 128 or 256 of 384 is being >> selected instead)? > > Okay, I retested WS as a single instance and as two (with the -2 option > for jack-dssi-host). With the single instance everything worked as you > describe. However, in the dual-instance scenario the second synth receives > program changes all right (i.e. the highlighted patch changes in the patch > display), but it wasn't receiving note-ons. :( But read on... > >> If you run jack-dssi-host with the '-v' debug switch, do you see >> messages like this: >> >> jack-dssi-host: OSC: whysynth/WhySynth/chan00 port 7 = 0.133895 >> >> appearing in real time as you edit a patch, or are they delayed? > > They're appearing in realtime. I'm not having the problem now, it was > likely just a doofus user error. > >> On Dec 28, 2005, at 8:33 AM, Dave Phillips wrote: >> >>>>> 'jack-dssi-host -2 whysynth.so' should launch two synths with two >>>>> separate GUIs, 'jack-dssi-host -3 whysynth.so' should launch three >>>>> synths etc. >>>> >>>> >>> Okay, that works. Three instances are launched, the first has Channel 0 >>> in its window titlebar, the next has Channel 1, the last has Channel 2. >>> However, only Channel 0 is accessable from my sequencer. What's going on >>> ? The channels referred to are MIDI channels, yes ? How can I reach the >>> other instances ? >> >> >> What you've done here is start one instance of jack-dssi-host >> hosting three instances of the WhySynth plugin. jack-dssi-host >> will have one ALSA MIDI port as input, and will split the incoming >> MIDI by channel to send to each of the three plugin instances. >> So if you can get sound on channel 0, you should be able to get >> sound on channels 1 and 2 via the same MIDI connection by just >> changing the MIDI channel number. Note that jack-dssi-host will >> have created 6 JACK ports for the audio output -- a left and right >> out for each plugin instance -- so make sure these are connected >> appropriately or you won't hear the output. > > Ah, there's the cuplrit. I reconnected in QJackCtl for simple stereo > output, and I now have multiple instances of WS making sound. > >> HTH. Looking forward to the demo! > > Thanks a lot, Sean. On to the music... :) > > Best, > > dp >
