[Alsa-user] SB 128 PCI and midi

[olavg <ol...@hf...>]

Hi,

After very much hard work and  some good hints found at this list and=20
otherwhere, I finally managed to compile and install Alsa for the SB 128 =
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soundcard.

The reason I did this was that there was no midi sound with the native li=
nux=20
driver for this card. When I tried to use playmidi I got a message that=20
/dev/sequencer  did not exist.  Well, in the directory /dev there was=20
actually something called "sequencer".   Playing wav-files, and having so=
unds=20
to accompany the desktop events was no problem. I could hear Linus Thorva=
lds=20
tell me how he pronounces Linux.

I downloaded Timidity, and then I could play midi-files by calling Timidi=
ty=20
from the command prompt.=20

But what I wanted was to hear the notes as I entered them in Denemo.  And=
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this was to my knowledge not possible to do with Timidity.

But after I installed Alsa, the situation is exactly as before. .au and=20
=2Ewav-files play, but  /dev/sequencer and hence Denemo is as silent as b=
efore.

I installed Noteedit. The same thing here. The display shows that the not=
es=20
are played. But no sound. I tried tse3play: same thing: display shows=20
playing, but no sound.

I have spent hours searching the net for a solution. The result is that I=
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find dozens and dozens of other people with the same problem, but not a h=
int=20
of a solution. The snd-card-ens1370/1 source-code contains lots of things=
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related to midi. But for me, who 25 years ago took a short "programming f=
or=20
poets" course in Pascal at the university, there is not much of enlighten=
ment.

Is it possible to get Noteedit play its notes with this sound-card, is it=
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possible to hear the notes as they are entered in Denemo?

Olav