Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:28:23PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello Debian users, I recently bought a MIDI keyboard and tried it with qsynth (which is the Qt interface to fluidsynth); everything works (midi events are recognised, sound comes out, using alsa_seq). Now to the problem; when I try to use fluidsynth instead of qsynth, MIDI events are recognised (I can see them with -v option), but no sound comes out of the speakers. You will have better luck asking this on the linux-audio-user mailing list: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141117054205.GW11142@tal
Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 01:34:36PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: What I found shows both qsynth and fluidsynth depend on jackd, since I did not have jackd installed and both refused to run, with the same error message, to the effect that jackd could not be found or started. It would seem that these two packages should depend on the jackd package, but don't. They depend on the libjackd libraries, indirectly. There's a possible use-case where you have fluidsynth on one computer but the jackd process on another (I think), in which case you may not need/want jackd installed in the same place as fluidsynth. I suspect this is a very rare use-case. Perhaps libfluidsynth1 or another package should Recmmends: jackd at the very least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141115144342.ga23...@chew.redmars.org
Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:28:23PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: Now to the problem; when I try to use fluidsynth instead of qsynth, MIDI events are recognised (I can see them with -v option), but no sound comes out of the speakers. I think I found the problem: I will answer myself in case someone experience the same behaviour. Apparently, qsynth spawns an instance of jackd which isn't killed when you quit the program (I don't really know why). Killing the process (jack) and starting fluidsynth does it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141114200051.ga28...@x60s.casa
Re: Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not
On 11/14/14, 12:00 PM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:28:23PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: Now to the problem; when I try to use fluidsynth instead of qsynth, MIDI events are recognised (I can see them with -v option), but no sound comes out of the speakers. I think I found the problem: I will answer myself in case someone experience the same behaviour. Apparently, qsynth spawns an instance of jackd which isn't killed when you quit the program (I don't really know why). Killing the process (jack) and starting fluidsynth does it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141114200051.ga28...@x60s.casa I had just installed timidity, when I saw this post, and decided to take a look at these tools. What I found shows both qsynth and fluidsynth depend on jackd, since I did not have jackd installed and both refused to run, with the same error message, to the effect that jackd could not be found or started. It would seem that these two packages should depend on the jackd package, but don't. I also discovered that neither of them seem to work with jackd2, they only seem to work with jackd1. However, since I could not get jackd2 to run at all, via qjackctl, the issue is probably not with qsynth/fluidsynth. I'm on Debian wheezy (7.7, according /etc/debian_version). Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/d08bac3e.6834%bob_mcgo...@symantec.com
Qsynth working, Fluidsynth not
Hello Debian users, I recently bought a MIDI keyboard and tried it with qsynth (which is the Qt interface to fluidsynth); everything works (midi events are recognised, sound comes out, using alsa_seq). Now to the problem; when I try to use fluidsynth instead of qsynth, MIDI events are recognised (I can see them with -v option), but no sound comes out of the speakers. To further test this, I tried: fluidsynth -ni patch.sf2 music.mid without success. This seems extremely strange, since qsynth should call fluidsynth to generate sounds. I would like to use fluidsynth rather than qsynth. Does anyone use fluidsynth to play midi files? If so, how are you invoking it? I guess I am missing some operations **before** invoking fluidsynth, but I don't know which ones. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141113202823.ga3...@x60s.casa
