Hello, dproc! What is your soundcard exactly? If you've gotten SBLive! or AudioPCI/SBPCI64/SBPCI128, then you can't use MPU-401 - it is emulated under Windows via software. There is another program - kmid (without "i"), which tries to do it via OSS sequencer. For this approach, you can use ALSA drivers for MPU401 with oss-seq emulation - works fine with native MPU401. Thanks, George. On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 dproc@dol.net wrote:
What is the trick for sending a MIDI file to the built-in synth on my soundcard?
My particlar card has an SB16 compatible MPU-401 port on 0x330, but I imagine the command/program is similar for all MPU-401 type cards.
I don't know the command to use (will cat do, and are there nice player frontends?) and I don't know the right device name or major/minor numbers.
I have tried kmidi (which uses the timidity engine - an all software synthesizer which sends the digital audio to /dev/dsp) but it is too demanding on my old CPU (150 Mhz) which runs flat out and still breaks up the sound, so I would like to use the hardware synth.
I also notice that the "sb" driver ossfree kernel module shipping with the SuSE 6.3 seems to have only one "irq" option - I put in the irq number for my SB dsp, but my card has a second irq for the MPU401 midi. Do you know where I tell the kernel this second irq?
Any other tips? dproc
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