Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > And using a soft synth doesn't help, because I want to address the MIDI > hardware of my soundcard. > But thanks anyway. > Klaus As I said, I believe timidity and fluidsynth actually do pick up on your hardware MIDI capabilities when they're found. They basically become a front-end / extra ports to access your MIDI from. Still, you're not seeing an ALSA entry and that's exactly your problem here.