On Thursday 20 November 2003 00:15, David Garcia wrote: >Timidity is a software (CPU wasting) synth that synths audio (say > wav) from midi information. That audio information can be played by > any Wav device so its sound level is controlled by pcm/wav > controls. > >Mainly, kmidi is a kde frontend to timidity. On the other side, kmid >uses any of the available MIDI devices (ALSA/OSS) to play midi.
But there doesn't seem to be a method to name the device in the menus for kmid. Shouldn't this be configurable someplace? >Kmid can choose as output device: >- the soundcard builtin synth, I don't think this one has such a beast. >- timidity (when running with some options), >- or the MIDI UART/USB output port as output device. Which I do not have, and is not enabled in the kernel. >Depending on the device you choose then you should consider the > following: - MIDI output port will not sound if no HW midi device > is connected. - Some builtin soundcards synths need loading some > pathes in order to sound (sfxload...) >- Builtin soundcards synths have their own channel on the mixer, > unmute it. Does this one have suuch a facility?: Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P) If kmidi is a front end for timidity, its a puzzle that it works. When timidity is run by itself, its silent, and 2 copies need to be killed after the gui goes away. I'd imagine there should be some way to configure this, but my admittedly limited searchs have not found the preferences tools. Also, kmix has a subpanel for the brooktree/bttv stuffs, but they are all turned on, and the gain controls wide open but non-functional ANAICT. So how does one go about setting that up?, with pointers to the web docs being fine. I get messages in /var/log/dmesg saying something about the seq: Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3-2.5 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: via82cxxx: Six channel audio available Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P) Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE800, IRQ 12 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: driver version 0.7 loaded [digital+analog] Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:09.1, irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xef005000 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: using card config "default" Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: registered device dsp1 [digital] Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: registered device dsp2 [analog] Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: btaudio: registered device mixer1 Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC ). ---- Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: can't register device seq Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0 ---- Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: ALSA device list: Nov 18 11:04:58 coyote kernel: #0: Virtual MIDI Card 1 >Hope this helps. It does, and thank you, but doesn't go far enough for me to make the "leap of faith" and actually put a big mental block diagram in the grey matter under my ancient, thinning hair. Probably not your fault. >On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:37, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >Greetings all; >> >> Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer/comment on ones own >> messages, but more info below. >> >> >I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting >> >pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been >> >replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, >> >which I have. >> > >> >Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable >> > exception of timidity. It goes thru the motions visually, but >> > makes no sound, and when its closed, it leaves a copy of itself >> > using about 75% of the cpu behind that can be found and killed. >> > >> >So whats the proceedure to make the midi synth work? >> > >> >I have no alsa installed other than whats in the kernel. The >> > mixer that comes up is kmix, from kde-3.1.1a. It apparently has >> > no sequencer or synth controls. >> >> I have since discovered that kmidi works, while kmid doesn't. >> Kmidi is a cpu hog though, taking about 80% of a 1400 mhz athlon, >> and skips a lot if other graphics are being drawn or copied. It >> also seems to miss out on some voices its own sample .mid files >> call for. >> >> Do I have a basic miss-understanding of the rolls of these two >> programs and timidity? >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M >> 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >> Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message >> by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. >> Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it >> help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help >> YOU! 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