I've not done this with a physical keyboard before (only with vkeybd), but I think you need to use something like timidity or fluidsynth (software synthesizers). For example, with fluidsynth, you start it from the commandline 'fluidsynth synthgms.sf2' (where synthgms.sf2 is a soundfount file, google for some free ones).
Then, you can connect the input from your keyboard to output to the softsynth. 'aconnectgui' provides a gui to do this, or you can use 'aconnect -o' to list the output ports. If your fluidsynth output port is 129:0, then 'aconnect 20:0 129:0' should get you going. Hope that makes sense, -- Bradford Powell On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:05 -0500, tomed[AT]bellsouth.net wrote: > I just purchased an M-Audio usb-midi keyboard, Deystation 49e, which > shows up nicely on sequencer port 20:0, and I can bang on the keyboard > and have my banging show up in sequencer programs, and write directly > to midi via the arecordmidi utility: > > $ arecordmidi -p 20:0 output.midi > > But I can't figure out how to monitor what I'm doing. I can play the > resulting output with timidity, but I'd like to hear the keyboard sound > out like a normal keyboard. > > I have a motherboard soundcard, the Ali M5455, which does not have a hard- > ware sequencer. > > I've noticed that the kernel has a virtual midi device, which I don't have > enabled. > > Any ideas on what's missing? > > Many thanks, > Tom Ed -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
