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----- "Robert Jonsson"  wrote:
> Hi Cedric,

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> I suppose you want to playback sound from a sequencer or midi player.

> Just startup the software synthesizer make sure it is routed to the

> soundcard, connect it to the player and you should get sound.

No, from my wonderful gcomposer! :-)
I was at work and said to me: "hey, does it work here?"

But no luck, ALSA doesn't show any MIDI output device.

So the ALSA MIDI output of gcomposer does not make any

sound. I tried a few tricks, but no luck. I ended up

installing timidity and finally had some sound arriving

to my ears. But I don't like this approach. Back a few

years ago, my soundblaster was happily processing MIDI

commands and made sound with 0% CPU cost. So my little

program worked fine on a "basic" pentium (200MHz, 64MB

of RAM, linux 2.2.something).
So I wondered if the (ultra modern!(TM)) PC at work had

a MIDI internal synthesizer or not. Maybe the kernel was

not properly configured or something, I thought. I looked

for some info on the internet but couldn't find anything

relevant (by the way if someone has a link...). So I was

already in the "there is a very high probability that there

is no MIDI synth in it" mood. I just asked here in case more

up to date people knew something.
And you did. Thanks to all!
But alas, from what you and others say, no MIDI synth

in the very nice(TM) Dell computer. Audiocards' makers

don't care anymore. It's all in the CPU. No more funky

MIDI synths in their wonderful!(TM) audiocards.

(I don't even know if there is a MIDI out port on this

computer just in case one would have the crazy idea

to pilot external MIDI devices with the PC.)
Thanks for your reply.

Seems I'm getting a bit out of date...
No more noise,

back to normal funky(TM) life of working!
Cédric.
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> /Robert

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