That frood Benjamin Scott sassed:
> Make sure your sound card's MIDI synthesizer is supported by Linux. For
> example, my Sound Blaster PCI 128 (AKA Ensoniq AudioPCI) has an onboard
> wavetable synthesizer, but the specs are closed and it does not work under
> Linux. If this is the case, you'll have to use a software-driven MIDI synth.
> I recommend Timidity.
I have an SBLive! card which I believe is the same chipset as the SB
PCI 128 card. I think you'll find that the sequencer works perfectly
well under the ALSA drivers. Mine does.
http://www.alsa-project.org/
The ALSA drivers aren't yet included in the stock kernel source, but
they're being integrated with 2.5 I believe. They have an OSS sound
module compatibility mode (via seperate module). The on-line
documentation has improved drastically over when I first tried setting
them up, and should help you produce a working configuration (always a
plus). :)
The drivers make the Ensoniq synth look like an AWE32/64 to most
existing software, so for example
playmidi -a midi.mid
should produce midi output on your SB PCI once you have the ALSA
drivers set up properly.
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