HOWTO: Getting MIDI to work fully in Ubuntu

[fuzzix]

As far as I can tell the AudioPCI/Ensoniq cards do not support hardware wavetable midi - the windows device driver from Creative uses a software midi engine so uploading a soundfont is not possible.

[CowPie]

As far as I can tell the AudioPCI/Ensoniq cards do not support hardware wavetable midi - the windows device driver from Creative uses a software midi engine so uploading a soundfont is not possible.

Just so you know, Suse 9.1 worked with MIDI out of the box with this Live! card. I just can't get debian-based distros to..

[Quest-Master]

I think you should bring this up on the mailing lists and make the developers aware of this. They just might get it to work by the Hoary stable release.

[Quest-Master]

Update:

On a new install, I tried a ton of things to get it working. Load the soundfont into memory with sfxload as it says in the guide, and then use Rosegarden 4 instead of KMid to develop your application. Rosegarden initialized some modules KMid didn't which in turn.. played MIDIs for me.

[xy77]

Okay, up till now, midi is not working for me.

lspci tells me:
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I loaded all the midi modules (snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device) and tried to use rosegarden4. It would start, but no sound is available. Here the rosegarden jack status output:

Rosegarden 0.9.9 - AlsaDriver - alsa-lib version 1.0.5

JackDriver::initialiseAudio - JACK server not running

ALSA Client information:


Current timer set to "system timer"
AlsaDriver::initialiseMidi - initialised MIDI subsystem

Current timer set to "system timer"
Creating device 0 in Play mode -- no connection available
Default device name for this device is Anonymous MIDI device 1
Current timer set to "system timer"
Current timer set to "system timer"
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: connection like 64:0 M Audio Audiophile 24/96 MIDI (duplex) requested for device 0
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: nothing suitable available
Creating device 1 in Play mode -- no connection available
Default device name for this device is Anonymous MIDI device 2
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: connection like 72:0 MK-225C USB MIDI keyboard MIDI (duplex) requested for device 1
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: nothing suitable available
Creating device 2 in Play mode -- no connection available
Default device name for this device is Anonymous MIDI device 3
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: connection like 128:0 KAMix: qamix (write) requested for device 2
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: nothing suitable available
Current timer set to "system timer"
Current timer set to "system timer"
Current timer set to "system timer"

And here what happens, when I try to start jack.

$ jackd -d alsa
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

loading driver ..
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
the playback device "hw:0" is already in use. Please stop the application using it and run JACK again
cannot load driver module alsa

I couldnt figure out, what is blocking jack from starting. The sequencer devices /dev/sequencer and /dev/sequencer2 are present.

Rosegarden complains that "The following plugins could not be loaded: -- Xsynth (from xsynth-dssi.so)". I hope this is not critical.

Just in case anyone wondered, sound from bmp or xmms is working.

Any help would be appreciated!

- David (xy77)

[alainhenry]

Hello,

Could you tell what is the midi equipmùent that you are using ? I did not get it from your message.

Alain

[SilvioTO]

I have sound blaster live and need to play with sound a game (runescape) that have midi music. I'm follow this howto but when I trying to unpack with sfarkxtc utility...

$ sfarkxtc ./Fluid R3 GM.sfArk
bash: sfarkxtc: command not found

sfarkxtc is in the same folder fo the file to unpack. can you help me please?

Thanks, Silvio.

[alainhenry]

Sorry for a late answer, I was on holiday for a week. Unfortunately, I do not know how to help in this case.
Anyone else ?
Alain

[fishfork]

SilvioTO: you need to type ./sfarkxtc instead of sfarkxtc - for security, linux doesn't include the current directory in the path.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Does this apply to Hoary, too? I'm confused, thus I may be in the wrong section.

I have a SoundBlaster Live SB0100 sound card, but I don't see emu10k1_synth nor snd_emux_synth in the list when using the lsmod command!