Nothing heard from MIDI in FC5 with SB Audigy

[Matthew Munro]

nigel henry wrote:
> On Monday 19 June 2006 20:52, Matthew Munro wrote:
>> My soundcard appears to be running fine.  I have PCM
>> sound, and my line input is audible.  But I can't get
>> KMid to play music.  I see the tracks being played in
>> `Channel View', but there are no sounds.
>>
>> I have tried as root and non-root and I have tried all
>> the MIDI output devices.  But KMid just spews a load
>> of ALSA messages.  First some `Couldn't allocate
>> queue' messages, then a load of `AlsaOut::eventInit :
>> no source'.
>>
>> I have tried `Test MIDI' in Control Centre too, with
>> no joy.
>>
>> What's happening?  Or not happening?
> 
> Hi Mathew. The only Creative soundcards that you can play midi through are the 
> EMU ones that have a hardware wavetable synth. Open a Konsole (CLI), type 
> alsamixer. Press F2, and you will get details of the soundcard, including the 
> driver. If it shows emu10k1 you are ok, but there is a bit more to do.
> 
> Presuming that it is an emu10k1 you need to load a soundfont for it to work. 
> To load the soundfont you need to install a package "awesfx" (without the 
> quotes) (yum install awesfx). With awesfx installed, insert the cdrom that 
> came with the soundcard, open it in a file manager. With my Audigy2 
> soundblaster the soundfont is in. Audio/common/SFBANK/CT4MGM.SF2. Copy and 
> paste it to your /home/user/ directory.
> 
> There are 2 loaders that come with the awesfx package. One, sfxload is for the 
> OSS (open sound system), and the other, asfxload is for Alsa. On the command 
> line type, as root, asfxload <name_of_soundfont> . In my case this would look 
> like.
> asfxload CT4MGM.SF2
> 
> Apart from trying to play a midi file with Kmid, you can verify if the 
> soundfont has been loaded by typing, as user. 
> cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1  (changing the card No if you have more 
> than 1 card). 
> 
> If Alsamixer shows that the driver is ca0106 the above won't work, but there 
> is a workaround.
> 
> Please post back. Nigel.

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for a great fix.  Everything in your method worked out.  In 
addition, I managed to run `asfxload CT4MGM.SF2' as non-root.

By the way, do you have any tips for configuring MIDI input?  I haven't 
got around to plugging my MIDI keyboard into the computer yet, but I 
imagine that I would need some advance knowledge.

For example, I see no MIDI inputs in the MIDI Manager of the aRts 
Control Tool.

Best regards,

Matthew

	
	
		
___________________________________________________________ 
All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine 
http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html