Re: [fluid-dev] Reading input from a MIDI device

2013-12-17 Thread Vesa Paatero
On this Linux system, the MIDI keyboard is in /dev/dmmidi2 and when I try "cat /dev/dmmidi2" I get characters on screen when pressing the keys. Hmm, interesting. Anyway, I think the raw midi device is in /dev/snd/midiC*D* (but I'm not sure it's as easy to open and test) Here is a command line

Re: [fluid-dev] Reading input from a MIDI device

2013-12-15 Thread David Henningsson
On 12/15/2013 01:12 AM, Vesa Paatero wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just getting started with FluidSynth and my problem is that I cannot > get input from a MIDI keyboard... and I can't find any pertinent switches > or help although the man page clearly says that FluidSynth can read > input from MIDI devi

Re: [fluid-dev] Reading input from a MIDI device

2013-12-15 Thread Vesa Paatero
I'm just getting started with FluidSynth and my problem is that I cannot get input from a MIDI keyboard... and I can't find any pertinent switches or help although the man page clearly says that FluidSynth can read input from MIDI devices. If you are using ALSA, you need to connect the MIDI

Re: [fluid-dev] Reading input from a MIDI device

2013-12-14 Thread Dave Serls
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:12:16 +0200 Vesa Paatero wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just getting started with FluidSynth and my problem is that I cannot > get input from a MIDI keyboard... and I can't find any pertinent switches > or help although the man page clearly says that FluidSynth can read > input f