Hi All,
Sorry about the delay. Thanks for you r suggestion Bob. Unfortuneately it didn't work. The command to find available ports for pmidi is 'pmidi -l'. pmidi is complaining of no sequencer file found.
The ALSA docs talked about snd-cmipci as an option to get MIDI working, but I tryed that also and that didn't work. Is MIDI for the CS4630 actually supported by the ALSA drivers?
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and good luck.
Craig Williamson
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob van der Poel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 1:12 p.m.
To: Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and MIDI using
ALSA0.9_RC8
Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to the list so please be kind ;-). I am a casual
> musician who is trying to break my grip on MIDI in windows. I have a
> Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (CS4630 based) and am running a gentoo system.
> I have compiled/emerged ALSA0.9_RC8 (alsa-driver, alsa-libs, alsa-oss,
> alsa-utils) from source. I am trying to get the cards MIDI capabilities
> working.
>
> I have followed the Gentoo ALSA help
> (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml) and have also used the
> official install guide
> (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Turtle+Beach&card=Santa+Cruz&chip=CS4630&module=cs46xx
>
> The problem I am having is that if I correctly follow the ALSA docs, I
> still can't get MIDI to work. I installed/emerged pmidi and it says it
> can't find a sequencer. Adding the option 'enable_midi="1"' did not
> work. Restarting ALSA said that the option enable_midi="1" is not a
> valid option.
>
> If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and
> good luck.
>
>
> Craig Williamson.
>
Don't know about your specific soundcard, but I've found that getting
midi to work is the easy part of sound. You might want to try a few things:
1. pmidi -p
This should list the ports available. Probably 64:0. Then, just set
ALSA_INPUT_PORTS and ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS to the proper settings. I have
mine both to 64:0.
2. Did you try playmidi or xplaymidi with the -e option? If you have
oss compat. complied in this should work.
Oh, all this is assuming you have an external synth/keyboard. If not,
just ignore all this blather.
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