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On Wed, 22 Aug, 2007 at 01:22PM +0100, Simon Williams spake thus:

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>  I'm now at the point where I can play midi files, and I have a midi keyboard

>  connected and can play sounds to and from that.

>  Timidity is rubbish, frankly, so I'm using fluidsynth, which works fine.

>  However, for some reason I can't get qsynth to work.

>

>  Qsynth1: Failed to create the MIDI driver (alsa_seq). No MIDI input will be

>  available.

>

>  No matter what settings I try, it always fails. The only useful message I

>  ever got was for alsa_raw, when it said that the device didn't exist. For

>  some reason I have /dev/snd/midiC1D0, but not /dev/snd/midiC0D0. So I

>  temporarily symlinked them, but that didn't help- it wasn't complaining

>  about a missing device any more, but it still couldn't create the midi

>  driver and still wouldn't tell me why not.

>

>  Also, both fluidsynth and timidity are too slow. Midi events are routed

>  around instantly (tested with vkeybd and the keyboard I have plugged in),

>  but there is a delay in playing anything sent to fluidsynth or timidity-

>  about half a second or so. I've tried running fluidsynth with nice -9, but

>  that just makes everything else less responsive and doesn't really decrease

>  the delay at all. Any suggestions? If I was to buy a decent sound card with

>  a hardware synth would this fix it? Would I be able to load enough

>  soundfonts into it? What about a pcmcia/cardbus version for my laptop?

This doesn't really answer your question, but if it works, you

might not care...
ZynAddSubFX - http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/
When I first found it, I lost two whole days to just sitting making

noises.
James
>  Thanks

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>  Simon

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