Re: Playing MIDI files -- another plea

2000-08-21 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Adding another plea to the thread... I'd like to obtain the best economical sound card for playing MIDI externally, through a MIDI-capable instrument (organ). I have the cable. I've tried it with an ESS1688 and the OSS driver for 2.2 with no success. ("Device not configured" was the best I cou

Fw: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-21 Thread William Smith
> To: Debian Users Mailing List (E-mail) > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:14 PM > Subject: Re: Playing MIDI files > > > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:02:29AM -0400, William Smith wrote: > > > > > I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64

Re: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-21 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:02:29AM -0400, William Smith wrote: > I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP). > > I can play .au and .wav files fine and I can use timidity to play a > .mid file but when I try running playmidi I get "No playback d

RE: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-21 Thread William Smith
I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP). I can play .au and .wav files fine and I can use timidity to play a .mid file but when I try running playmidi I get "No playback device set. Aborting" In /dev there is MAKEDEV file, if you sh ./MAKEDEV it

Re: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Patrik" == Patrik Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrik> Maybe your soundcard doesn't support hardware midi? In that case Patrik> you can use the 'timidity' package. Thanks! Works fine now. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL

Re: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-20 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Abraham Shulman) writes: > Hi, > > When I try to play MIDI files with `playmidi', I get the message > > open /dev/sequencer: No such device > > However, `ls -l /dev/sequencer' produces > > crw-rw 1 root audio

Playing MIDI files

2000-08-19 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Hi, When I try to play MIDI files with `playmidi', I get the message open /dev/sequencer: No such device However, `ls -l /dev/sequencer' produces crw-rw 1 root audio 0 Mar 28 16:29 /dev/sequencer so I don't understand what's wrong. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. \\// |