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rzrscm

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Registered: 2012-11-17

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Can't get MIDI support working with FluidSynth...

I'm trying to add MIDI support to ALSA...So, I installed the FluidSynth packages through Pacman, got soundfont-fluid from the AUR and installed that, added the path to the soundfont in fluidsynth.service, so that file looks like this...

[Unit]
Description=FluidSynth Daemon
After=sound.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fluidsynth -is -a alsa -m alsa_seq -r 48000 "/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After that I enabled the service, but when I load up DOSBox, I get...

ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0)
MIDI:Opened device:none

When I run aconnect -o, I get...

client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
    0 'Midi Through Port-0'

I get MIDI in GZDOOM by setting the sound settings for that to use fluidsynth, but I can't get MIDI through DOSBox since it relies on Alsa for MIDI support.

Last edited by rzrscm (2013-06-14 08:46:40)