You can catch data with arecordmidi.
2008/10/19 Carl Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ok. Maybe I'm not understanding something fundamental here. If so, I would
> really appreciate it if someone could explain it to me. I have been told
> twice now that I need to load a soundfont into my SB card. Why??? A
> soundfont is just a collection of sounds to be played by midi instructions,
> and I really don't care about 'sounds' at all at this point (i'm going to
> use Zyn or QSynth anyway). Right now, I just want to see if the data being
> sent by my keyboard is being received/processed by my soundcard. I know
> there are simple ways of checking this, such as,
>
> amidi -p myport -d or
> dd if=/dev/snd/midiC2D{0,1} bs=1
>
> (i think these should work). I have tried loading soundfonts into my card
> with asfxload or whatever that program is called and nothing changed, of
> course, because the problem is that my soundcard is not processing the midi
> signals in the first place (unless the soundfont loading does some sort of
> initialization of the Live Drive, but... then it should have worked, and it
> didn't). I have gotten midi in to work with this soundcard on older versions
> of fedora core (with older versions of alsa i'm sure).
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Vedran Miletić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> You need to load the soundfont, of course, and then connect input to
>> sampler using qjackctl. There is no need to run jack all the time, it
>> works without it too.
>>
>> 2008/10/18 Carl Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > I am trying to get my Audigy 2 ZS card to recognize signals from my Korg
>> > SP-200 keyboard. I am using the midi input jack on the audigy's live
>> > drive
>> > front panel thingy. I am using an up-to-date Fedora Core 9.
>> >
>> > The problems I have encountered and things I have already tried are
>> > described best in this post:
>> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=198240
>> >
>> > I've seen this problem elsewhere:
>> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476633
>> >
>> > Is midi in on this card supported by emu10k1?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Carl
>> >
>> > Here is my sound system according to aadebug:
>> >
>> > ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Sat Oct 18 11:49:32 MDT 2008
>> > http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug
>> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
>> >
>> > Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
>> > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20
>> > 03:45:00
>> > EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> >
>> > Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
>> > snd_seq_midi 9728 0
>> > snd_emu10k1_synth 9600 0
>> > snd_emux_synth 31488 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
>> > snd_seq_virmidi 8832 1 snd_emux_synth
>> > snd_seq_midi_emul 8960 1 snd_emux_synth
>> > snd_emu10k1 127620 4 snd_emu10k1_synth
>> > snd_rawmidi 21248 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
>> > snd_ac97_codec 93604 1 snd_emu10k1
>> > snd_hda_intel 321692 2
>> > snd_seq_dummy 6532 0
>> > snd_seq_oss 29212 0
>> > snd_seq_midi_event 9600 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
>> > snd_seq 44736 9
>> >
>> > snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>> > snd_pcm_oss 36480 0
>> > snd_mixer_oss 16384 1 snd_pcm_oss
>> > snd_pcm 60676 4
>> > snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
>> > snd_seq_device 9740 8
>> >
>> > snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>> > snd_timer 20744 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
>> > snd_util_mem 7296 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
>> > snd_page_alloc 11016 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>> > snd_hwdep 10244 3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_hda_intel
>> > snd 46136 24
>> >
>> > snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
>> >
>> > Modprobe Conf ---------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
>> > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
>> > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
>> > HDA Intel at 0xf8200000 irq 22
>> > 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
>> > HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf5010000 irq 17
>> > 2 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]
>> > Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] (rev.4, serial:0x20021102) at
>> > 0xd000, irq 18
>> > 2: : timer
>> > 3: : sequencer
>> > 4: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
>> > 5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
>> > 6: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
>> > 7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
>> > 8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
>> > 9: [ 0- 2]: hardware dependent
>> > 10: [ 0] : control
>> > 11: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback
>> > 12: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent
>> > 13: [ 1] : control
>> > 14: [ 2- 0]: hardware dependent
>> > 15: [ 2- 1]: raw midi
>> > 16: [ 2- 0]: raw midi
>> > 17: [ 2- 4]: digital audio playback
>> > 18: [ 2- 4]: digital audio capture
>> > 19: [ 2- 3]: digital audio playback
>> > 20: [ 2- 2]: digital audio playback
>> > 21: [ 2- 2]: digital audio capture
>> > 22: [ 2- 1]: digital audio capture
>> > 23: [ 2- 0]: digital audio playback
>> > 24: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture
>> > 25: [ 2] : control
>> > 26: [ 2- 2]: hardware dependent
>> > 27: [ 2- 2]: raw midi
>> > 28: [ 2- 3]: raw midi
>> > 00-02: HDA Codec 2
>> > 01-00: HDA Codec 0
>> > 02-00: EMU10K1 (FX8010)
>> > 02-02: Emux WaveTable
>> > 00-02: ALC882 Analog : ALC882 Analog : capture 2
>> > 00-01: ALC882 Digital : ALC882 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
>> > 00-00: ALC882 Analog : ALC882 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
>> > 01-03: ATI HDMI : ATI HDMI : playback 1
>> > 02-04: p16v : p16v : playback 1 : capture 1
>> > 02-03: emu10k1 : Multichannel Playback : playback 1
>> > 02-02: emu10k1 efx : Multichannel Capture/PT Playback : playback 8 :
>> > capture
>> > 1
>> > 02-01: emu10k1 mic : Mic Capture : capture 1
>> > 02-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback : playback 32 :
>> > capture 1
>> > Client info
>> > cur clients : 5
>> > peak clients : 6
>> > max clients : 192
>> >
>> > Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
>> > Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
>> > Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
>> > Connecting To: 15:0
>> > Client 14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
>> > Port 0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
>> > Client 15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
>> > Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
>> > Connected From: 0:1
>> > Client 24 : "Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]" [Kernel]
>> > Port 0 : "Audigy MPU-401 (UART)" (RWeX)
>> > Port 32 : "Audigy MPU-401 #2" (RWeX)
>> > Client 25 : "Emu10k1 WaveTable" [Kernel]
>> > Port 0 : "Emu10k1 Port 0" (-We-)
>> > Port 1 : "Emu10k1 Port 1" (-We-)
>> > Port 2 : "Emu10k1 Port 2" (-We-)
>> > Port 3 : "Emu10k1 Port 3" (-We-)
>> >
>> > Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
>> > controlC0 hwC1D0 midiC2D1 pcmC0D0p pcmC1D3p pcmC2D2c pcmC2D4p
>> > controlC1 hwC2D0 midiC2D2 pcmC0D1c pcmC2D0c pcmC2D2p seq
>> > controlC2 hwC2D2 midiC2D3 pcmC0D1p pcmC2D0p pcmC2D3p timer
>> > hwC0D2 midiC2D0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D2c pcmC2D1c pcmC2D4c
>> >
>> > CPU -------------------------------------------------------
>> > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
>> > cpu MHz : 2000.000
>> > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
>> > cpu MHz : 2000.000
>> >
>> > RAM -------------------------------------------------------
>> > MemTotal: 2073896 kB
>> > SwapTotal: 2031608 kB
>> >
>> > Hardware --------------------------------------------------
>> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM
>> > Controller (rev 02)
>> > 05:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>
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