MIDI configuration

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Thanks.
I gave it a closer look yesterday and I have seen that a special
configuration of timidity++ is needed to support MIDI on my sound card.
(es1371).

I will throw my es1371 and my NVidia sh**t out.
> First of all you need a driver that supports midi. Some of the
> OSS-drivers 
> does not support midi.
> I have a Soundblaster Live Platinum, and AFAIK the OSS
> (kernel)-driver does 
> not support midi.
> 
> AFAIK this is true for all SB Live cards.
> 
> If the kernel-driver for your card does not support midi, you'll have
> to 
> check out ALSA ( http://alsa-project.org ).
> 
> There are two series of ALSA-drivers 0.5 (which is now considered
> deprecated) 
> and 0.9.  AFAIK 0.9 is now at RC6-level.
> 
> ALSA has OSS-emulation at kernel-level, by the way.
> 
> You might also have to get a utility to load soundfonts into your
> card. 
> For SB-cards you can use "sfxload", which on debian is in package
> "awesfx".
> 
> After this I would test with a native Linux-application. The
> ALSA-pages 
> has links.
> 
> 
> When it comes to wine, midi support is only available in the
> OSS-driver 
> ( that would be wineoss.drv ). So make sure that one is selected in
> the 
> wine-config.  AFAIK only midi-out is supported (but that is probably
> what you want).
> 
> As a Windows application to test with, I would suggest JAZZ++ 
> ( http://jazzware.com ).
> This is an OpenSource sequencer , which is available for both Linux
> and 
> Windows.
> It uses wxWindows, so you should be able to build it with
> debugging-info 
> too, with a free compiler ( MinGW32 ? ).
> 
> 
> If you give me more details about your card, I can probably help you
> more.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tor Einar
> 
> 
> 
> 
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