On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Paul Winkler wrote:
> One question, if anyone's listening: Does anyone know if there's a way
> to have a soft-synth (like RTSynth) receiving MIDI events on one
> channel, while another application listens on another channel? I can't
> figure out how to get anything other than "/dev/midi: device or resource
> busy". Is this do-able with OSS drivers (the commercial ones)?
>
With linux 2.1.xxx version you can have some virtual midi ports.
I know someone who can launch 3 times RTsynth on his puter with this
trick. However he has got 3 soundcards !! But RTsynth is not
configurable so you have to use virtual midi ports.