Re: [Rosegarden-user] Why can't I play midi->Rosegarden->Sequencer?

[D. M. 'S. M. <ros...@gm...>]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 09:17 pm, Michael Rudmin wrote:

> play on my keyboard and hear the tones come out of the
> OPL FM sequencer.  So I know the SB16 works,
> hardware-wise.

>   Under Jack and qjackctl, I can't bring up Jack -d
> Alsa , no matter how many periods per playback there
> are, or duplex/playback only.  So that's out.  I
> successfully compiled Jack with ALSA from the CVS, so
> that's not the problem.

I have no idea on JACK with one of those.

>   I can bring up Timidity, but I can't get anything
> out of Timidity.

Not really precise enough.  It doesn't run, or doesn't make any noise?  
Different problems.

> playback device FM Sequencer as device 0, and where it
> loads in 3 MIDI devices for input successfully,
> attempting it another 2 times and finding that it's
> already controlled.  But I don't see it even trying to
> start up audio.

You have to run some obscure utility to get the FM synth to make noise under 
Linux.  I've never run Linux with such an ancient soundcard, and I don't know 
the name of this utility.

Um.  I can't find it.  My internet connection is not behaving itself very well 
at the moment.  $50 a month for crappy service.  I hate monopolies.

>   I also don't see where to start up the
> softsynthesizer plugin from Rosegarden:  if I open the
> Softsynth plugin window, I see an empty window and an
> option to close the window.

That's because you don't have JACK running. No JACK, no audio, no audio, no 
DSSI synth plugins.

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