[PlanetCCRMA] fluidsynth/qsynth can't find alsa midi

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 17:19 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't get fluidsynth/qsynth to find my alsa midi device. I can only
>> use oss midi device. Alsa midi works fine with my other (soft)synths and
>> applications.
>>

> Are you using the command line fluidsynth program? The
> "--midi-driver=alsa_seq" should select the alsa sequencer as the midi
> i/o subsystem. There should be an equivalent switch in qsynth if that's
> what you are using to start fluidsynth...

OK.Thanks, I have it working now. In fact I had already tried this but I 
have found a minor bug in qsynth that prevented it from working: I had 
selected "alsa" instead of "alsa_seq", and had specified the path to my 
external midiinterface /dev/snd/midiC1D0. Wrong. Then I switched to 
"alsa_seq" and the field where I entered my midiinterface was grayed out. 
But in fact it was NOT really inactive and it didn't work. I had to switch 
back to "alsa", delete the "/dev/snd/midiC1D0" entry, and then switch back 
to "alsa_seq" again. Only then everything worked as expected.

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Martin Tarenskeen