Re: [fluid-dev] Problem starting Fluidsynth on a headless RPi

2020-01-29 Thread Tom M. via fluid-dev
A few thoughts from my side... > I have the suspicion that your MIDI keyboard is not yet fully registered as a > MIDI device when fluidsynth starts. This shouldn't matter. As soon as a new MIDI port is made available in alsa_seq, fluidsynth receives an event about a new port becoming available a

Re: [fluid-dev] Problem starting Fluidsynth on a headless RPi

2020-01-29 Thread George Poulson
Hi Jean-Jacques. I have tried what you suggested by updating /root/.profile like this: aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav /home/george/startfs sleep 2 aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav killall fluidsynth sleep 2 /home/george/startfs aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_L

Re: [fluid-dev] Problem starting Fluidsynth on a headless RPi

2020-01-29 Thread Ceresa Jean-Jacques
Hello Georges,   After reading your issue about no Alsa audio when starting FluidSynth from root .profile. This sounds like if Alsa hadn't started (or not yet finished its initialization) before FluidSynth starts. May be could you validate this supposing trying to start Alsa player (aplay)

Re: [fluid-dev] Problem starting Fluidsynth on a headless RPi

2020-01-29 Thread George Poulson
@Marcus - many thanks for your help. I tried directing the output from fluidsynth to a file but it was too brief to reveal anything. I also used 'aconnect -l' to determine whether it was the midi connection from my keyboard that was not being made correctly but everything was as expected; Next I t