That was just the ticket. Thanks. Tom Ed
At Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:09:04 -0500, Bradford Powell wrote: > > I've not done this with a physical keyboard before (only with vkeybd), > but I think you need to use something like timidity or fluidsynth > (software synthesizers). For example, with fluidsynth, you start it from > the commandline 'fluidsynth synthgms.sf2' (where synthgms.sf2 is a > soundfount file, google for some free ones). > > Then, you can connect the input from your keyboard to output to the > softsynth. 'aconnectgui' provides a gui to do this, or you can use > 'aconnect -o' to list the output ports. If your fluidsynth output port > is 129:0, then 'aconnect 20:0 129:0' should get you going. > > Hope that makes sense, > > -- Bradford Powell > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:05 -0500, tomed[AT]bellsouth.net wrote: > > I just purchased an M-Audio usb-midi keyboard, Deystation 49e, which > > shows up nicely on sequencer port 20:0, and I can bang on the keyboard > > and have my banging show up in sequencer programs, and write directly > > to midi via the arecordmidi utility: > > > > $ arecordmidi -p 20:0 output.midi > > > > But I can't figure out how to monitor what I'm doing. I can play the > > resulting output with timidity, but I'd like to hear the keyboard sound > > out like a normal keyboard. > > > > I have a motherboard soundcard, the Ali M5455, which does not have a hard- > > ware sequencer. > > > > I've noticed that the kernel has a virtual midi device, which I don't have > > enabled. > > > > Any ideas on what's missing? > > > > Many thanks, > > Tom Ed > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
