Re: [Rosegarden-user] cannot get playback

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Friday 28 Nov 2003 9:28 pm, nik...@bl... wrote:
> I'm using rg4 0.95 on a suse9.0 box. I'm trying to use my roland
> xp-80 synth though a midisport1x1 usb device.
>
> Everything is ok, but I cannot hear the playback while using the
> synth, and I'm really getting nuts with this.

So the problem is simply that while everything looks OK, you never get 
any sound from anything plugged into the Midisport?

If you go to Rosegarden's Manage MIDI Devices dialog (from the Studio 
menu), what does it list?  There are various troubleshooting 
possibilities, depending on what you see in that dialog.

First possibility is that the Midisport is simply not configured 
correctly at the ALSA driver level.  If you don't see it listed in 
the device dialog (as a device with a name like "MIDI external 
device" with a connection that refers to the external USB Midisport) 
then this is likely the case.  Of course, if you have been using the 
device already with other software on SuSE then that's less likely.  
Either way, say so and we can take it from there.

Second possibility is that the device is working but simply isn't the 
one your events are being sent to.  This would be likely if the 
device was listed in the dialog but wasn't the first device in it 
(perhaps a built-in soundcard's MIDI out might appear first).  In 
that case, all you should have to do is switch your tracks over to an 
instrument on the right device (via the right-button menu on the 
track label).


Chris