Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-09 Thread David Harel
Thanks for your patience, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On ג', 2005-11-08 at 14:49 +0200, David Harel wrote: 2. After I installed so many audio tools and still can't find my arms and legs in the mess, can you direct me to a command that does the synthesizing? for what I care, to a file

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-09 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ד', 2005-11-09 at 20:00 +0200, David Harel wrote: I have installed both timidity and ALSA. ALSA is installed as a set of libraries since I have to use kernel 2.4. I can use OSS on kernel level. Still I failed to use kmid. Got error on /dev/sequencer Yes, cause you didn't have a

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-08 Thread David Harel
Thanks for your reply, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Not necessarily. A software synthesizer can just take a MIDI file, synthesize the wave sound out of it and save it to disk (or send it to /dev/dsp). 1. Just for the sake of understanding, If I do: % cat mymusic.wav /dev/dsp I should

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-08 Thread David Harel
Maxim Kovgan wrote: On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set midi no my laptop using midi howtos. It has an ESS What exactly are you willing to do ? is it for controlling a MIDI device ? No just to play midi files ? Right to use internal

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-08 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ג', 2005-11-08 at 14:49 +0200, David Harel wrote: 1. Just for the sake of understanding, If I do: % cat mymusic.wav /dev/dsp I should here the music right? cos it doesn't work. It's not that trivial. /dev/dsp cannot just accept a WAVE file as-is. You need to first set it up with

midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread David Harel
Hi all, I am trying to set midi no my laptop using midi howtos. It has an ESS Maestro 3 ES1983s sound card. I can here music. I tried to check if this card is supported in http://www.4front-tech.com/osshw.html It seems in general that the card is supported but I didn't find ES1093s

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: It seems in general that the card is supported but I didn't find ES1093s specifically. I configured the kernel to have oss and midi loopback (modules sound.o and v_midi.o) and I get kmid to start (before that it said it can't open

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Aaron
Did you check alsa? What distro are you running? oss is lame I have much joy from alsa. Also if it is supported in alsa there will be good docs on how to get it running. That said for rpm based systems read the information on planet CCRMA at home for debian based systems read the above but use

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Maxim Kovgan
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set midi no my laptop using midi howtos. It has an ESS What exactly are you willing to do ? is it for controlling a MIDI device ? just to play midi files ? to use internal MIDI device ? Maestro 3 ES1983s

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread David Harel
Thanks for your reply. Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: It seems in general that the card is supported but I didn't find ES1093s Can you play regular sound files? Yep. If your card doesn't have an internal MIDI synthesizer, you'd have to

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 21:51 +0200, David Harel wrote: If your card doesn't have an internal MIDI synthesizer, you'd have to use a software synthesizer. For this, I've successfully used Timidity in its 'ALSA sequencer client' configuration. I never checked but timidity might also have an