Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Monday 05 September 2011, Stefan Kost wrote: > btw. you should be able to play midi files in totem/rythmbox (if you > have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad installed) it will use wildmidi though. You can play MIDI files with VLC (www.videolan.org) if it was compiled with FluidSynth support enabled.

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On 09/04/11 19:40, Lane Lester wrote: > Thanks for all your help, guys. > > It looks like QSynth is working OK, but I don't see any way to tell it > what file to play! btw. you should be able to play midi files in totem/rythmbox (if you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad installed) it will use wildmidi

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas < pedro.lopez.cabanil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just drag and drop a MIDI file into the main window. > That worked, but as you said, it's not very good for the purpose. > > QSynth perhaps has not the best user interface to play MIDI files, bec

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Lane Lester wrote: > Thanks for all your help, guys. > > It looks like QSynth is working OK, but I don't see any way to tell it what > file to play! Just drag and drop a MIDI file into the main window. QSynth perhaps has not the best user interface to play MIDI file

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

Thanks for all your help, guys. It looks like QSynth is working OK, but I don't see any way to tell it what file to play! Lane -- *Lane Lester* Codger's Cogitations: Reflections on Life and Faith ___ fluid-dev mailing list f

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > As I've already said: this is a false myth. Jack doesn't improve > > latency if you only send fluidsynth output to the sound card. > > > > For MIDI realtime routing (fr

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > As I've already said: this is a false myth. Jack doesn't improve > latency if you only send fluidsynth output to the sound card. > > For MIDI realtime routing (from your external MIDI keyboard to > Rosegarden, and from Roseg

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Andrew Suffield wrote: > If you are connecting a midi keyboard > to your computer, to work with rosegarden or similar, and want the > sound to come out of the speakers at the moment you hit the key, > you'll need jack. As I've already said: this is a false myth. Jack d

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:01:48PM -0400, Lane Lester wrote: > But I'm still curious about whether to stick with alsa or go with jack. What > do you think? If you don't know that you need jack, then you probably don't need it. Jack's main purpose is low-latency. If you are playing a midi file, yo

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Lane Lester wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Graham Goode wrote: > > > If you're only playing Midi files then ALSA is fine. If you're playing live > > & wanting to add effects or route audio into other apps then use Jackd > > > Yes, I'll only play MIDI. But

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Graham Goode wrote: > If you're only playing Midi files then ALSA is fine. If you're playing live > & wanting to add effects or route audio into other apps then use Jackd Yes, I'll only play MIDI. But QSynth refused to work without Jackd. So I installed Jackd, a

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

If you're only playing Midi files then ALSA is fine. If you're playing live & wanting to add effects or route audio into other apps then use Jackd On Sunday, September 4, 2011, Lane Lester wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas < pedro.lopez.cabanil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Matt Giuca wrote: > Just use -a alsa as a command-line flag to switch to the ALSA back-end. > This tends to "just work" in my experience. > Well, before I try the "other" jack, my alsa try worked just fine: ~# fluidsynth -a alsa /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.s

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas < pedro.lopez.cabanil...@gmail.com> wrote: > For fluidsynth itself, my recommendation is QSynth as a friendly GUI. Oops! I didn't read far enough before sending my previous message. I'll check QSynth out right now. But I'm still curious ab

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Lane Lester wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:39 AM, James Ong wrote: > > > Have you had Jack installed? > > > No, I made the erroneous assumption that the fluidsynth package would have > everything. > > So I installed the jack package: It is is named "jackd": htt

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Matt Giuca wrote: > I have never got FluidSynth working with Jack. (I think I have once but the > sound wasn't right and Jack itself was quite crashy.) I just use the ALSA > back-end, which should be fine on Linux machines unless you seriously care > about real-time (fr

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

This is the wrong Jack. You need the Jack Audio Connection Kit. Try installing qjackctl (the GUI) as that should add the correct Application. I just hate it when two projects use the same name & cause confusion like this... GrahamG On Sunday, September 4, 2011, Lane Lester wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

I have never got FluidSynth working with Jack. (I think I have once but the sound wasn't right and Jack itself was quite crashy.) I just use the ALSA back-end, which should be fine on Linux machines unless you seriously care about real-time (from what I understand). Just use -a alsa as a command-l

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:39 AM, James Ong wrote: > Have you had Jack installed? No, I made the erroneous assumption that the fluidsynth package would have everything. So I installed the jack package: The following extra packages will be installed: cdparanoia libao-common libao4 python-cddb p

Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

Have you had Jack installed? On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Lane Lester wrote: > I just installed FluidSynth on my Debian Squeeze 64 system, using the .deb > package. When I executed the program I got this output: > > FluidSynth version 1.1.4 > Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Peter Hanappe and others.

[fluid-dev] First Try Failure

I just installed FluidSynth on my Debian Squeeze 64 system, using the .deb package. When I executed the program I got this output: FluidSynth version 1.1.4 Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Peter Hanappe and others. Distributed under the LGPL license. SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems,