Frank Boehme wrote: > Hi all, > Hi Frank,
> > But I would like to enquire about iiwusynth because I understand > iiwusynth is better aimed to soundfonts (I know that I can use > soundfonts with timidity too). Has anybody got it working with Alsa 0.9 > and SiS7018? Roger Brown (Rosegarden developer) reports it works for > him. For me it doesn't. I have recompiled with --enable-debug and set it > suid root. This is what i experience: > > When iiwusynth is running, it does not open a midi port, i.e. i see > nothing related when i type 'aconnect -o'. Consequently, in rosegarden > i don't see the intstruments from the used soundfont (as I said, > rosegarden works fine for me with timidity). But iiwusynth does not > complain. It says > > debug: using alsa audio driver > (loads of soundfont info) > debug: using alsa midi driver The iiwusynth uses ALSA's raw MIDI by default. You can ask it to use the ALSA sequencer interface by passing the "-malsa_seq" flag on the command line. Normally, iiwusynth should then show up with aconnect. > iiwuplay does not work either. It outputs some info about the midi file > and prentends to be playing, but there is just silence. It might be a problem with the default master gain. By default, it's set rather low because the synthesizer does not have any automatic gain control. Try it again, but with the -g1 (i.e. gain = 1) option. If that doesn't help contact me personally. > And now on to the most astonishing thing: I built the swami soundfont > editor (successor of smurf) which uses iiwusynth for on-the-fly testing > of instruments. And that connection works! But I still dont see a midi > connection from swami to iiwusynth with aconnect or alsa-patch-bay. Swami loads the synth as a shared object and calls it directly. It doesn't go through the ALSA interface. > However, the transport (i.e playing chosen instruments at certain > pitches) does work and I hear the notes. Also, when I turn off iiwusynth > playback from within swami and then turn it on again, then it remains > silent until I restart swami. That might be a Swami problem. I'll forward the mail to the swami developers list. > Thanks in advance for any pointers, Hope this helps, Peter > Frank > > ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
