I've been unable to get my Yamaha P-80 electric piano hooked up to my
Dell laptop (Inspiron 8000 running RH9). I'm trying to use the serial
port; my sound card has no MIDI port. With both OSS and ALSA, I can
play MIDI files to the piano just fine, but can't go the other way; I'd
like to be able to record what I play. Works out of the box on my
spouse's Windows laptop...
Here's the relevant part of my /etc/modules.conf:
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# ALSA native devices
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd cards_limit=2
alias snd-card-0 snd-maestro3
alias snd-card-1 snd-serial-u16550
pre-install snd-serial-u16550 /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
options snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8
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Here's sample output from aconnect -iol
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client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
client 72: 'External MIDI 1' [type=kernel]
0 'MIDI 1-0 '
Connecting To: 128:0
client 128: 'ALSA Midi recorder' [type=user]
0 'ALSA Midi recorder'
Connected From: 72:0
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This is the configuration I'd like to use, with Tuomas Airaksinen's
midirecord rather than a synthesizer; no luck. I have no trouble going
the other way, either directly (pmidi -p 72:0 file.mid) or indirectly
(I can make music on the piano using vkeybd and aconnect). I don't
think the problem is with midirecord, since vkeybd successfully connects
to it. But I've also tried other programs (Jazz, Rosegarden, TiMidity)
without success, although some of that may be due to compilation
problems -- still working on it. I would wonder whether it's a setting
on the keyboard itself, except I have no problem connecting to Jazz on a
Windows machine (using a driver provided by Yamaha), and I'm pretty sure
I used to get some delayed output with TiMidity under ALSA 0.5, although
I no longer have ready access to that version.
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks!
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