On Saturday 11 November 2006 16:56, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 15:40, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Hi Anne. The only time it would be necessary to DL soundfonts (unless of > > course you wanted to try different fonts) is if your using a non Audigy > > (emu10k1) card. For non EMU cards which don't have a hardware synth, > > you'd need to use Qsynth for example, and DL some soundfont or other, and > > load it onto Qsynth, which will then stand in for the missing hardware > > synth on your soundcard. GM=general midi. > > OK - so I can ignore that bit. > > > Check in alsamixer. The "Synth" slider needs to be up. I think this > > control used to be named "Music". > > It was almost at the top, and the red light is on. > > > The snd module that needs to be loaded for the synth is. > > snd-emu10k1-synth, but IIRC you can't load the soundfont if this isn't > > installed, but may be worth checking in /sbin/lsmod. > > Yes, it's there. > > Any more ideas? > > I remember a couple of years ago I couldn't get kmid to work at all, but > kmidi worked fine. That makes me wonder if I should be looking for some > other midi player. > > Anne Anne. You can play midi through Rosegarden4, but the last time I tried I found that some parts were missing, drum stuff I think. It's a shame that Kmidi was dropped post FC1. It used TiMidity as a synth I believe, and always worked with no problems, and still does on my FC1 install. I've already spent a lot of time looking for midi players, and all I found were really ancient ones no longer being developed. This is not much help, but have a look at http://alsa.opensrc.org/pmidi Nigel.
