Jean Francois Ortolo wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick
> Here is my response below.
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >
> > I'm pretty sure thexse cards don't have an onboard synthetizor
> > >
>
> Wrong. This cards advertises as having a GM ( General Midi ), both GS
> and XG ( Yamaha standard ) fully compatible synthetizor built in.
>
Takashi??
> I know this sound card is very recent, maybe a little cheap, but not too
> much, and you didn't ever hear speaking about sound cards without any
> synthetizor built in, did you?
>
Yep. That's why we have timidity.
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Subject:
Re: [Alsa-devel] cmipci and midi.
Date:
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:07:23 +0100
From:
Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC:
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Hi,
At Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:11:24 +0900,
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
> Can someone fill me in on where the midi support for this chip is at
> please? I am in the process of building a stereo portable HDD recorder
> and it would be good to have the option for midi support which could
> turn this machine into more than just a recorder. eg a purely ladspa FX
> processor.
The chip has no on-board wavetable function. A software MIDI synth
like timidity is the only choice.
If you mean the external MIDI, pass snd_enable_midi=1 to
snd-card-cmipci module. As default it's disabled.
ciao,
Takashi
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> This advertising for this card is fully supported by all vendors I've
> seen until now. There is no doubt about this.
>
Do you have a set of sound fonts that are installed on a windows or mac
partition specifically for that card to use with it's onboard synth?
There have been cases of false advertising where the capabilities are
said to be onboard but actually run through software emulation.
> The real problem might probably be, that I have to run some of the Alsa
> utilities, such as either amixer, alsamixer, or alsactl, then do something
> specific, that should make the Synth capability, being enabled.
>
No harm trying. It will be similar to the setup for the soundblaster.
> Or I have to manually edit the /etc/asound.conf config file, in such a
> way I'm actually searching about.
>
> the man pages about these utilities, do say there are some specific
> capabilities, that may be activated only by manually editing the
> /etc/asound.conf i.e. without the utilities help.
>
> So what should I do with the /etc/asound.conf file?
>
No idea sorry. I have stayed away from midi up until the past couple of
months. Maybe we can find out together.
> Many thanks.
> Best regards.
>
> Jean Francois Ortolo
>
> > > Jean Francois Ortolo wrote:
>
> > > It appears that all devices work well, apart from the Synth capability.
> > >
> > > So what could I do, in order to make the Synth capability, active?
> > >
> > > I've installed the Jazz++ program, which works well, didn't try
> > > recording from my keyboard until now, for the moment I can't output any
> > > sound to the speakers, using the existing demo midi files. External Midi
> > > works very well with it.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > >
> > > Jean Francois Ortolo
> > >
> > > PS Here is the /proc/asound/sndstat results:
> > >
> > > Sound Driver:3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.12a emulation code)
> > > Kernel: Linux ortolojf.noos.fr 2.4.2-2 #3 dim déc 9 21:44:11 CET 2001 i686
> > > Config options: 0
> > >
> > > Installed drivers:
> > > Type 10: ALSA emulation
> > >
> > > Card config:
> > > C-Media PCI CM8738 (model 37) at 0xdc00, irq 5
> > >
> > > Audio devices:
> > > 0: C-Media PCI DAC/ADC (DUPLEX)
> > >
> > > Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> > >
> > > Midi devices:
> > > 0: MPU-401 (UART)
> > >
> > > Timers:
> > > 7: system timer
> > >
> > > Mixers:
> > > 0: C-Media PCI
> > >
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Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd.
Http://www.boosthardware.com - For the discerning hardware connoisseur.
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