[plug] Mandrake LE2005

[David Dartnall]

Timothy White wrote:

>>>>Thank you Simon, that has returned the system to part success:
>>>>'Test Sound' on the KDE sound system configuration window works, as does
>>>>kmouth, and I assume skype when I get round to testing it. but 'TEST
>>>>MIDI' does not...
>>>>
>>>>Your comment here would be appreciated
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>>Yes with same result for Autodetect, Open Sound System, ALSA,
>>Threadedopen ..., and Enlightened Soubd system. - I've set it to ALSA.
>>No MIDI response with any of these settings.
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>Note: Not all(many) sound cards have hardware MIDI synths. If this is
>the case, then you need to use a software synth. This is where Windows
>usually wins, cause it comes with it's own MIDI synth. The easiest way
>I've found is timidity, in soft synth mode.
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>It's to late to remember 100% of what I did, but the Debian package
>comes with an init script for starting the softsynth at boot.
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>I've got it working (not starting on boot) fairly well with alsa, and
>having a decent amount of grunt, don't notice that I'm not using my
>hardware synth (I'm luck enough to have a 128 voice hardware synth on
>one of my sound cards! A vibra 128)
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>Ah, your lucky. I found the links I used. (Saved in an email)
>Not sure which one it was, probably both. I'm off to bed now so I'll
>leave the research upto you.
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>Tim
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>https://wiki.ubuntu.com//MidiSoftwareSynthesisHowTo
>http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/September2002/article259.shtml
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Thanks Tim - didn't mean to keep you up late - I'll follow up as suggested.
DD