[TriLUG] MIDI device help

[tomed at bellsouth.net]

That was just the ticket. Thanks.

Tom Ed

At Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:09:04 -0500,
Bradford Powell wrote:
> 
> I've not done this with a physical keyboard before (only with vkeybd),
> but I think you need to use something like timidity or fluidsynth
> (software synthesizers). For example, with fluidsynth, you start it from
> the commandline 'fluidsynth synthgms.sf2' (where synthgms.sf2 is a
> soundfount file, google for some free ones).
> 
> Then, you can connect the input from your keyboard to output to the
> softsynth. 'aconnectgui' provides a gui to do this, or you can use
> 'aconnect -o' to list the output ports. If your fluidsynth output port
> is 129:0, then 'aconnect 20:0 129:0' should get you going.
> 
> Hope that makes sense,
> 
> -- Bradford Powell
> 
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:05 -0500, tomed[AT]bellsouth.net wrote:
> > I just purchased an M-Audio usb-midi keyboard, Deystation 49e, which
> > shows up nicely on sequencer port 20:0, and I can bang on the keyboard
> > and have my banging show up in sequencer programs, and write directly
> > to midi via the arecordmidi utility:
> > 
> > $ arecordmidi -p 20:0 output.midi
> > 
> > But I can't figure out how to monitor what I'm doing. I can play the
> > resulting output with timidity, but I'd like to hear the keyboard sound
> > out like a normal keyboard.
> > 
> > I have a motherboard soundcard, the Ali M5455, which does not have a hard-
> > ware sequencer. 
> > 
> > I've noticed that the kernel has a virtual midi device, which I don't have
> > enabled.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what's missing?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Tom Ed
> 
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