Re: [fluid-dev] What is MIDI driver?

[Nikolay Shaplov]

В письме от понедельник, 14 февраля 2022 г. 12:46:19 MSK пользователь Nikolay 
Shaplov написал:

> > > that parameter ist for the alsa_sequencer backend to name the
> > > _fluidsynth_
> > > input port.
> > 
> > That is correct. The --portname parameter sets the name of the
> > sequencer port. To control which device to use for an alsa_raw driver,
> > you need to specify the "midi.alsa.device" setting. E.g.
> > 
> > fluidsynth .. -m alsa_raw -O "midi.alsa.device=hw:1,0,0" ...

You need to use lower case "o", as I figured out. This works:

fluidsynth -a pulseaudio -m alsa_raw -g 10 -r 48000  -o 
"midi.alsa.device=hw:1,0,0" /usr/share/sounds/sf3/default-GM.sf3

Though I should say it is totally counterintuitive. No user would guess how 
to solve "open /dev/snd/midiC0D0 failed" problem. No wonder google does
not provide any examples of alsa_raw usage. Nobody managed that :-)

I would add this example to FluidSynth wiki so there were at least one proper 
place
that have workable example. I would also suggest developers to update man 
and --help to cover this issue, and may be add separate options for specifying
device, when using alsa_raw. As a user I would expect to have such option.

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Nikolay Shaplov aka Nataraj
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