HOWTO: MIDI in Hoary

[Deusiah]

You were using Alsamixer right? Sorry I had to ask but it's very important and you didn't mention it. Since there are often a few volume levels and some are not to obvious as to what they are just make sure they are all up, and check the mute isn't on. There may also be toggle options which you should play about with

Sorry I can't help any more.

[szr4321]

@Deusiah: Thank you very much for this HowTo, it helped me a lot.

Just one question: will I have to reload the sound font after boot up? If so, is there somewhere I can put an instruction to load the sound font automatically for me?

There might be a more elegant way using the /etc/modprobe.d files, but the following worked for me. Insert something like

/usr/bin/asfxload /usr/share/sounds/sf2/default.sf2

into /etc/init.d/alsa in the start() procedure, that's about line 273 on my system.

Edit: One might as well try to put that into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh.

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Midi works, but it's clogging up my system.

Every time I asfxload FluidR3GM.SF2, my system slows down heaps.

It's a 1.1Ghz Celeron, with 256 meg of RAM.

Is there a cure for this? Other than upgrading to something post 2001?

[Deusiah]

I didn't do any testing on older hardware sorry, I assumed that since it's making use of your soundcards hardware this wouldn't be too important.

The only thing I can suggest is try using a small soundfont, other than that nothing springs to mind sorry.

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I didn't do any testing on older hardware sorry, I assumed that since it's making use of your soundcards hardware this wouldn't be too important.

The only thing I can suggest is try using a small soundfont, other than that nothing springs to mind sorry.

Can u suggest such a soundfont? I tried a few, but none seemed to work.

[zero0w]

Can u suggest such a soundfont? I tried a few, but none seemed to work.

If you have the SB Live! Liveware CD you should be able to find the smaller soundfont at this location once you put the CD in drive:

/cdrom/AUDIO/COMMON/SFBANK/

For more information you can take a look at the ALSA wiki snd_emu10k1 section:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/emu10k1

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zero0w cheers! May the source be with you always.

[elegant_dice]

That doesn't seem to help me...

www.birthdaycards.com has MIDI things on the webpage. How do you get it to work on Firefox (with ESD)?

I can't even tell how to set up a helper app in ubuntu firefox?

Thanks
Paul

ps And, how do you get flashplayer to work via ESD ?? Thats pretty frustrating.

[Deusiah]

You might be able to use Mozplugger to get midi working inside Firefox, as for using ESD that should be just a case of selecting ESD System -> Preferances -> Multimedia Systems Selector

[zero0w]

Adding the modules to statup automatically
If this works for you, you will want to have these modules load at startup. Add the following to the bottom of /etc/modules (NOTE: This file will need root permissions so use sudo nano /etc/modules or sudo gedit /etc/modules):

snd_seq_midi
snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1_synth

In my experience, only snd_emu10k1_synth is required to add to the file /etc/modules
The other two modules will be loaded automatically as a dependency to snd_emu10k1_synth.

You can tell it by running lsmod | grep snd_emu10k1_synth.