On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 22:26 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 19:54, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:20 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Friday 06 January 2006 17:16, Tim Howard wrote: > > > > > >>> Any other ideas? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Just to verify: you loaded a valid soundfont into the wavetable > > > > > >> synth, and you're sure you're sending the MIDI command sequence to > > > > > >> the wavetable synth? > > > > > > > > > > > > I have loaded the same soundfont that I use under Windoze, and all > > > > > > the instruments show up in Rosegarden... But still no sound. > > > > > > > > OK, I did a "cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1" and discovered that > > > > the soundfont wasn't actually loading! I hadn't installed the package > > > > containing sfxload, so my call to it was failing, and I didn't realize > > > > it... Bingo, now it works! > > > > > > > > > > It's > > > > > > probably something ridiculously simple, since I'm new to this... > > > > > > > > > > S'ok. You're right that it usually is something simple, but it > > > > > never seems that way until *after* the problem is solved, when > > > > > it's easy to call it that! > > > > > > > > <g> Yep, it was ridiculously simple... Thanks for the help! > > > > > > Hi Tim. Could you verify something? I only use my Audigy2 soundcard, and > > > have the onboard card disabled with the jumpers on the MOBO. Do you still > > > have your onboard card enabled? If so, and you're now able to play midi > > > files, the fact that Laura still has her onboard card enabled, has > > > nothing to do with her inability to play midi files. > > > > > > Glad you got yours working. Nigel. > > > > Don't use sfxload use asfxload. > > > > Lee > > Hi Lee. I'm not trying to wind you up. Who said I was wound up, I just said asfxload is the preferred tool to load soundfonts. I wasn't aware that not all distros ship it. > FC1.2.and 3 only have binaries for > sfxload after installing awesfx in /bin. I have iso's for FC4 but am looking > for harddrive space for it, but don't expect to see any difference. Debian > Sarge does have binaries for asfxload, and sfxload, so no problem there. > Slackware 10.0 (and I know thats a bit ancient) has both asfxload, and > sfxload, but asfxload refuses to load the soundfont, whereas sfxload does. I > havn't tried Gentoo, just got a bit fedup in booting up distro's. Tell me > please. Just what is the difference. If i load a sounfont using sfxload, then > play a midi file. Is this midi file taking a different path to my speakers, > than if I'd loaded the soundfont using asfxload. I'm almost 100% Alsa, apart > from one FC1 install thats still using OSS, but thats just for email, > webbrowsing, and a bit of Internet radio live audio streams. I'm all for > Alsa, and if awesfx on FC1,2 and 3 had the asfxload binary I would be using > it. This appears to be a distro thing, rather than an Alsa problem, but as > far as I'm concerned, as long as I can load soundfonts, whether it's by > sfxload, or asfxload, I don't care, as long as I can use midi files I will > continue to suggest using sfxload, because at least I know this works, and > whats the point of suggesting asfxload if the binary doesn't exist on your > distro. Nigel (trying not to cause any offence) >
