On Thursday, December 17, 2009, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hi,
I have problems with midi-output on my OS11.2/Gnome. I installed fluidsynth and qsynth. When I try to play a midi-file with note-edit, the sound is very distorted, unrecognizable. That's on my snd-hda-intel card. What could be the problem ?
It is hard to say without more information. It happens only with Noteedit, or also with other MIDI applications? Try FluidSynth 1.0.8 or 1.0.9, but not older. The newest release 1.1.0 has some problems with QSynth, that will be fixed in the not yet published 1.1.1 release. Sorry for all the mess ;) In order to isolate the problem, my advice would be to try a simple scenario like this one: in one terminal, start fluidsynth: $ fluidsynth -a alsa file.sf2 (you may want to try "-a pulseaudio" or "-a oss" if you want) The command line interface of fluidsynth provides a shell-like session, where you can try commands. For instance, you may want to set the gain value to a lower value with "gain 0.4". Try the "settings" command to see all the current settings. Later, you would be able to set most settings using the QSynth friendly GUI. In another terminal, use the aplaymidi (from alsa-utils) utility: $ aplaymidi -l ... $ aplaymidi -p FLUID song.mid
I also do have a soundblaser live in the machine. When I take this as a midi-output, I don't have any sound, unless I install a soundfont with asfxload. Is it possible to have the soundfont automatically loaded on boot ? I have seen something in /etc/udev/rules and /etc/alsa.d, but I don't understand these.
I don't have an Audigy, but yes, this card has a MIDI hardware synth, and need a soundfont. The RPM package awesfx provides the /etc/udev/rules.d and /etc/alsa.d scripts to load soundfont files into the card. You should copy your .SF2 files into the /usr/share/sounds/sf2 directory, and write the name of your preferred one in the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/sound following the key name SOUNDFONT-FILES. Regards, Pedro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help@opensuse.org