On Wed, 2007-22-08 at 13:22 +0100, Simon Williams wrote: > 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. Use a smaller (audio) buffer size. -DR- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
