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02-23-2005, 05:21 AM
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Registered: Dec 2003
Distribution: Debian
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MIDI in ALSA -- file plays, but no sound
I would like to know how to configure to play MIDI files through my sound card. I have tried many times, but I have never got it to work.
Now with ALSA, I compiled the "virtual midi" module from the kernel and enabled it at system startup.
Now though KMid shows the MIDI file as playing, I still get no music. I have tried the alsamixer volume control, but that doesn't have a MIDI balance/control.
How can I play my MIDI files in Slackware? I am using kernel 2.6.10.
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02-23-2005, 12:14 PM
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Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Slackware64 14.1 and -current
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does sound work in anything else like XMMS if not you may want to go back into alsamixer and unmute the master control and the pcm
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02-23-2005, 09:36 PM
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Distribution: Debian
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Yes. Sound works when playing music and MP3s.
I am not that dumb 
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03-01-2005, 04:42 AM
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The same happens to me. I have an old Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 whose ALSA driver is ens1371. I can hear sound when playing WAV and MP3 but no sound when playing MIDI. On the net and inside the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound there is written that this card, because it is a cheap model, doesn 't have a MIDI synthetizer on board. So to hear MIDI playing, one must use a software like Timidity++ that converts in real time a MIDI in WAV.
Just my two cents,
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03-13-2005, 02:25 AM
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Yes.
The solution has been found. Though I did this in Gentoo, it should apply equally to slackware.
For those who have no wavetable card (unless you use Creative SBLive!) Just download and install timidity++ and the timidity EAW patches.
Then configure timidity++ to load up on boot time in your init scripts.
The sounds are pretty good. Not quite the same as hardware synth, but quite nice.
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11-20-2006, 04:49 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Luxembourg
Distribution: Fedora Core 5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by harishankar
Yes.
The solution has been found. Though I did this in Gentoo, it should apply equally to slackware.
For those who have no wavetable card (unless you use Creative SBLive!) Just download and install timidity++ and the timidity EAW patches.
Then configure timidity++ to load up on boot time in your init scripts.
The sounds are pretty good. Not quite the same as hardware synth, but quite nice.
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I have the same problem.
How can I configure timidity++ to load up on boot time in my init scripts?
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11-21-2006, 12:40 AM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: West Midlands, UK
Distribution: Slackware 14 (Server),OpenSuse 13.2 (Laptop & Desktop),, OpenSuse 13.2 on the wifes lappy
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Add the following to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script:-
#add synth midi support here using timidity software
timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0 &
#end midi support here
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