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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:34:53PM +0200, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:

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>    Hi!

>

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:05:50PM +0100, James Stone wrote:

> > Does anyone know of a linux based synth that emulates the sound of the C64 SID

> > chip? I would love to use that sound in some pieces, but I have never been able

> > to find anything very usable.

> >

> > Perhaps something could be used from the libsid/libsidplay libraries??

>

> There is an instrument that is based on the SID chip for BEAST, so you

> should be able to create SID sounds using this network. Here are the

> details:

>

> http://beast.gtk.org/wiki:SidSynthesizer

>

> and downloadable instrument files are in the sound archive:

>

> http://beast.gtk.org/sound-browser.phtml?loc=/c64-sid

>

Hmmm.. it's certainly easier said than done getting beast to

accept midi input.
I downloaded and compiled beast and beast-alsa. I selected the

alsa midi input as one of the alsa virmidi channels, I had some

difficulty getting the beast sound engine to agree to start, but

I selected playback settings "auto activate". I connected the

midi input from the synth to the alsa virmidi, 
But then when i press a key I get:
beast-0.7.1[26163]:BSE:1: ignoring note-on (523.251160Hz) for

foreign midi channel1
Any hints??
James