I'll admit it. I will never understand sound cards. Nonetheless, I would like mind to work like it's supposed to. I have a SBLive which has the ability to use sound fonts and convert raw MIDI into sound. It can also accept output from a MIDI mapper. As I understand this, it means the sound is actually created by my CPU using patch files. Since I paid good money for the soundfont capability, I would like to be able to use it. I can get midi to play using `pmidi` from the command line, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set up the KDE so that it can use the soundfont capability. When I go to the Midi section of the KDE control panel, I see nothing listed in the box headed "Select the midi device you want to use:". I have the option to use a "Midi Mapper", but AFAIK that means using Timidity with patch files. Is there a way to get the KDE to play nicely with my SB Live? Steven
On Saturday 06 July 2002 13:07, John Lamb wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I can't for the life of me figure out how to set up the KDE so that it can use the soundfont capability.
I found that to use kmid, I had to go into settings and choose the second alsa device.
Settings? Everytime I try to start kmid I get a crash. The backtrace indicates the failure is in setting up the midi mapper. Can you be more specific as to which settings your are referring to? Is this a KDE setting or a kmid specific setting? I'm running KDE3.0.2, BTW.
JDL
Steven
Hey Y'all I'm looking for a free video editing app.Any ideas? TIA Oh one more thing if Clayton Connell could email me off the list.That would be nice
On Saturday 06 July 2002 18:58, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Saturday 06 July 2002 13:07, John Lamb wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I can't for the life of me figure out how to set up the KDE so that it can use the soundfont capability.
I found that to use kmid, I had to go into settings and choose the second alsa device.
Settings? Everytime I try to start kmid I get a crash. The backtrace indicates the failure is in setting up the midi mapper. Can you be more specific as to which settings your are referring to? Is this a KDE setting or a kmid specific setting? I'm running KDE3.0.2, BTW.
JDL
Steven ==================== Steven, Have you tried Kmidi instead of Kmid? I don't get Kmid to work either, but kmidi works pretty good for my midi files. I also use Tmidity Synth with my Creative card PCI512, but prefer Kmidi for the best control.
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On Saturday 06 July 2002 16:22, Patrick wrote:
==================== Steven, Have you tried Kmidi instead of Kmid? I don't get Kmid to work either, but kmidi works pretty good for my midi files. I also use Tmidity Synth with my Creative card PCI512, but prefer Kmidi for the best control.
Patrick
Patrick, I used kmidi with timidity as the midi mapper. That uses a piano to play http://members.bellatlantic.net/~hattons/midi/bachto.mid whereas # sfxload -D 0 /usr/share/sfbank/creative/default.sf2 # pmidi -p 65:0 ~/Desktop/bachto.mid plays the same thing with an organ. The organ is the correct choice. Also, using tmidity uses patch files. I believe even when it uses sound fonts (which I never got working) will translate the soundfont files into something similar to patch files. There should be some kind of wrapper wich would make the EMU10K1 look like a midi mapper so it can be used by programs such as kmidi. I really have trouble understanding why the support for this is so bad. I can't complain to SuSE, they've put more into this than just about anybody. At least that's what I gather by looking at the supported devices file on the alsa site. Steven
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I found that to use kmid, I had to go into settings and choose the second alsa device. Settings? Everytime I try to start kmid I get a crash. The backtrace indicates the failure is in setting up the midi mapper. Can you be more specific as to which settings your are referring to? Is this a KDE setting or a kmid specific setting? I'm running KDE3.0.2, BTW.
I found the emu10k1 difficult to set up on 7.3. On 8.0, I found that YaST2 could install the card without problems. If you have 8.0, you might try uninstalling and reinstalling it. Unfortunately, I can't test this at the moment. Both the emu10k1 card and the motherboard soundcard started failing recently on both linux and an old Windows installation. So I removed one card and disabled the other until I get a new motherboard. JDL
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