Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth with alsa audio driver

[josh]

Quoting Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <address@hidden>:
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Joan Quintana wrote:
> > I'm new to fluid-dev.
> >
> > I use Ubuntu Studio (9.04, Jaunty), and I have an external sound card:
> > Edirol UA-25EX (hw:1) and of course my laptop internal soundcard (hw:0)
> [...]
> > But I can't start fluidsynth with alsa audio driver, connecting to my
> > external device (hw:1):
> >
> > $ fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a alsa -o audio.alsa.device='hw:1' -l
> > soundfont.sf2
> >
> > and the reason is:
> > fluidsynth: error: Failed to find a workable audio format
> >
> > trying with QSynth I can choose two sample formats: 16bits and float
> >
> > From fluidsynth -o help I think that the parameter to configure is:
> > audio.sample-format      STR   [def='16bits']
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> UA-25EX in "advanced mode" uses 24 bits samples. This sample format   
> is not yet
> supportted by fluidsynth. You can switch off the "advanced mode" to use 16
> bits samples.
>
> Regards,
> Pedro

Using ALSA device plughw:1 should do the trick as was already  
mentioned, which will do the necessary sample format conversion, in  
which case FluidSynth should be left at its default of 16bits for  
audio.sample-format.

Best regards,
Josh Green