----- "Robert Jonsson" <spamatica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Cedric, > > I suppose you want to playback sound from a sequencer or midi player. > Just startup the software synthesizer make sure it is routed to the > soundcard, connect it to the player and you should get sound. No, from my wonderful gcomposer! :-) I was at work and said to me: "hey, does it work here?" But no luck, ALSA doesn't show any MIDI output device. So the ALSA MIDI output of gcomposer does not make any sound. I tried a few tricks, but no luck. I ended up installing timidity and finally had some sound arriving to my ears. But I don't like this approach. Back a few years ago, my soundblaster was happily processing MIDI commands and made sound with 0% CPU cost. So my little program worked fine on a "basic" pentium (200MHz, 64MB of RAM, linux 2.2.something). So I wondered if the (ultra modern!(TM)) PC at work had a MIDI internal synthesizer or not. Maybe the kernel was not properly configured or something, I thought. I looked for some info on the internet but couldn't find anything relevant (by the way if someone has a link...). So I was already in the "there is a very high probability that there is no MIDI synth in it" mood. I just asked here in case more up to date people knew something. And you did. Thanks to all! But alas, from what you and others say, no MIDI synth in the very nice(TM) Dell computer. Audiocards' makers don't care anymore. It's all in the CPU. No more funky MIDI synths in their wonderful!(TM) audiocards. (I don't even know if there is a MIDI out port on this computer just in case one would have the crazy idea to pilot external MIDI devices with the PC.) Thanks for your reply. Seems I'm getting a bit out of date... No more noise, back to normal funky(TM) life of working! Cédric. > > /Robert _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
