Several things are happening... |-----Original Message----- |From: Timothy R. Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:58 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] SB Live Synth? | | |Hi Jose, |> It works great. |> |> Follow my enclosed directions... | | | Thanks, Jose, I'm now at the point where KControl lists MIDI |sequencers. I |wonder why Mandrake mis-installed when I installed 8.1? So |far, in LM I have |things working that didn't work in SuSE, and things *not* |working that worked |in SuSE. ;-) | Anyway, so I have the synth ready to go it looks like, and I |run sfxload |and tried to load the sound font that is in /etc/midi .
NOPE! That's not a good soundfont. I get no sound output when I attempt to use this font. It is probably formatted for the software synth player and not for the SBLive. Download a "collection" font from the http://thesoundsite.ismi.net/ link. |However, then if I |try to run playmidi it gives me this error: | | % /suse/home/uninet/www/warpspeed.mid | Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 |by Takashi Iwai | This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. | For details please see the file COPYING. | playmidi: No playback device found. | Playmidi doesn't know how to use the new SBLive Sequencer device, so this is normal, I get the same thing... | KMid gets similar results, only on the first try it doesn't |give any kind |of error, just no sound. It might or might not be working at this point. Did you turn the volume all the way up in AUX mix for the synth and all other outputs? (Of course you'll need a "real" sound font...) Try starting Kmid from a terminal so you can see it's error messages. Also try double clicking on the .MID file within Konqueror. You should initially try using a smaller GM/GS sound font until you get everything working. Make sure you are using a "complete" collection sound font as well. Some files only have a single instrument, etc. |If I try to play the song a second |time, then KMid |complains about some other app using the sequencer. | | It sounds like the original Kmid process never terminated... | Here is what lsmod has to say about sound: | |------------ |snd-synth-emu10k1 4432 0 (autoclean) |snd-synth-emux 26784 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emu10k1] |snd-seq-midi-emul 4944 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] |snd-seq-virmidi 8304 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] |snd-seq-midi 3552 0 (autoclean) |snd-seq-oss 28944 0 |snd-seq-midi-event 3216 0 [snd-seq-virmidi |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] |snd-seq 41856 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] |snd-pcm-oss 18624 1 |snd-pcm-plugin 15792 0 [snd-pcm-oss] |snd-mixer-oss 4800 0 [snd-pcm-oss] |snd-card-emu10k1 2368 1 |snd-emu10k1 22320 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-card-emu10k1] |snd-pcm 31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin |snd-emu10k1] |snd-timer 8528 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] |snd-rawmidi 10048 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1] |snd-emux-mem 1776 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-emu10k1] |snd-ac97-codec 25056 0 [snd-emu10k1] |snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 |snd-ac97-codec] |snd-seq-device 3984 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-synth-emux |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] |snd 35248 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi |snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss |snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 |snd-pcm snd-timer |snd-rawmidi snd-emux-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device] |soundcore 4208 9 [snd] |-------------- | | | Thanks for your help! | | -Tim | |-- -JMS
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