Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie! Playing midi files

[Hactar <eb...@ga...>]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Peter M=F8ller Neergaard wrote:

> On June 17, 2001, Hactar  wrote:
>
> H> "--with-sequencer=3Dyes" is part of it.
>
> I take it that you mean that it was correct to compile with this
> option.

Yes.  It is required, if you intend ALSA to be the synthesizer.

> The following is the content of my /etc/modules.conf:

...

>   alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
...
>   alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss

The correct aliases are in there...

>   peter:~ > playmidi -e sicklysweet1b.midsound.mid ; lsmod

OK, "-e" (while it may not give any errors) definitely won't make any
sound from your sound card.  From the man page:

-e

  send output to external midi.   This is what you'll want to do if you
  have any midi hardware connected to your system.  This option is the
  default for playmidi as distributed.

So it looks as if "playmidi" is equivalent to "playmidi -e".  There is an
ALSA-native MIDI player.  Have you tried that?

Also, you may have to attach MIDI port p to some port that ALSA provides,
and then "playmidi -D p" ("-D" isn't in the man page... look in "playmidi
-h", or maybe I have a patched version of playmidi).

>   snd-seq-midi            4592   0 (autoclean)
>   snd-seq-midi-event      3200   0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-os=
s]
>   snd-seq                44032   0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-os=
s snd-seq-midi-event]

Are there other modules that must be loaded, to provide a MIDI
synthesizer?

Also check /var/log/messages.

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