Hi there. Please read my comments below: On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:15:03PM +0100, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > In general, playmidi sends a MIDI file to the gameport of your soundcard; > there is a special cable to connect to external MIDI equipment. > (See 'man playmidi' or just type 'playmidi').
Well, as far as I know, playmidi sends the MIDI file to the sequencer device, which is usually /dev/sequencer. That device might be an external MIDI sequencer connected through the gameport, or the internal sequencer of the sound card... > There are cards/chipsets with hardware wavetable or FM synthesizer > capabilities but yours does not AFAIK :( No, I know it does... > Even if your soundcard has some hardware capabilities these are not > neccesarily supported. Oh... Is the support still under development? Is it intended at all to be supported? > Kmidi (a standard KDE application) and Timidity can play MIDI files just > fine by using software emulation. HTH, I know timidity... It's nice... But still I'd want the hardware support to work... It's a shame to waste the CPU resources on software emulation of what the hardware can do... > -Frans > > Btw: your question to the list and my answer were received by me from the > mailing list :) Oh... sorry then... It must have been the problem with my mail... Thank you, any further help appreciated, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - certified insane, complete illiterate. e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ * An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user