On Wed, 22 Aug, 2007 at 01:22PM +0100, Simon Williams spake thus: > I'm now at the point where I can play midi files, and I have a midi keyboard > connected and can play sounds to and from that. > Timidity is rubbish, frankly, so I'm using fluidsynth, which works fine. > However, for some reason I can't get qsynth to work. > > Qsynth1: Failed to create the MIDI driver (alsa_seq). No MIDI input will be > available. > > No matter what settings I try, it always fails. The only useful message I > ever got was for alsa_raw, when it said that the device didn't exist. For > some reason I have /dev/snd/midiC1D0, but not /dev/snd/midiC0D0. So I > temporarily symlinked them, but that didn't help- it wasn't complaining > about a missing device any more, but it still couldn't create the midi > driver and still wouldn't tell me why not. > > Also, both fluidsynth and timidity are too slow. Midi events are routed > around instantly (tested with vkeybd and the keyboard I have plugged in), > but there is a delay in playing anything sent to fluidsynth or timidity- > about half a second or so. I've tried running fluidsynth with nice -9, but > that just makes everything else less responsive and doesn't really decrease > the delay at all. Any suggestions? If I was to buy a decent sound card with > a hardware synth would this fix it? Would I be able to load enough > soundfonts into it? What about a pcmcia/cardbus version for my laptop? This doesn't really answer your question, but if it works, you might not care... ZynAddSubFX - http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ When I first found it, I lost two whole days to just sitting making noises. James > Thanks > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
