Re: [Rosegarden-user] Midi device - no connection

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Monday 19 July 2004 11:51 am, Espen Holm wrote:
> I'm new to midi on linux, and have problems getting rosegarden to play
> midi. I want to use Rosegarden to edit midi and making scores.
> I have no external midi device.
>
> When I open "Studio/manage midi devices" and click "new" I can import
> devices, but under "connection I get "No connection" and nothing else.

> I have a Dell laptop with Mandrake 10 and 2.6 kernel.
> The audiocard is intel810 and I'm using alsa driver (snd-intel8x0).
> Midi works with "Playmidi"
> I have installed Rosegarden with urpmi without errors.

It sounds like you probably have everything you need except a soft synth to do 
the playing for you.  You have no external equipment, and your on-board audio 
has no ability to play MIDI by itself.

The easiest thing to do, just for MIDI, is to get QSynth and procure a 
suitable .sf2 soundfont from somewhere 
(ftp://ftp.personalcopy.net/pub/PC51f.sf2.gz).  Configure QSynth to use the 
"alsa" driver for output, instead of JACK.  Rosegarden should see QSynth, and 
should probably make it your default connection if it's the only connection 
you have.

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