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Re: external midi on SB16



Will Lowe wrote:

> Has anyone had any luck connecting an external midi device (say, a tone
> generator) to the midi port on an SB16?  I've got the card working ok,
> but I can't get any programs to send output to it.  Sending
> anything to /dev/sequencer or /dev/sequencer2 results in the crappy SB FM
> midi synthesis,  rather than in nice tones from my tone module....
>
> Here's the output of "cat /dev/sndstat",  if it helps ...
>

    Have you tried playmidi -e ???

>
> OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
> Kernel: Linux gondolin 2.2.1 #4 Sun Feb 14 18:21:24 EST 1999 i586
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
> Type 2: Sound Blaster
> Type 29: Sound Blaster PnP
> Type 7: SB MPU-401
> Type 37: Loopback MIDI Device
>
> Card config:
> Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
> SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 5 drq 0
> OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
> Loopback MIDI Device drq 0
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13) (DUPLEX)
>
> Synth devices:
> 0: Yamaha OPL3
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: Sound Blaster 16
> 1: Loopback MIDI Port 1
> 2: Loopback MIDI Port 2
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
> 0: Sound Blaster
>
>                                                         Will
>
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