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Hi.
I'm trying to set up both midi playback and the ability to use a keyboard controller on one of my systems.
The system in question is set up with a firewire audio device (ECHO AudioFire4), which I've only ever been able to use by going through JACK. The only speakers I have for this system are powered monitors which connect with TRS cables to my audio interface, therefore I need to use the interface in order to use my speakers.
For midi playback, I have followed the instructions listed on the wiki, which I recall walked the user through installing the synthesizer (in my case, Timidity++), and then installing freepats. This works beautifully on another computer with an ALSA card (I get playback), but I get no sound on the JACK/ffado system. I have tried running timidity manually and using the -Oj option when my jack server is running, but I still get no sound. Is there a way to run timidity++ in daemon mode that makes it transparently operate with JACK?
I'm new to midi, and notably I didn't install the fluidr3 soundfont (wasn't sure if it was necessary), but I also did not do so on my primary machine and midi playback works fine there. I'm also really stuck on getting my midi keyboard to work (admittedly I need to re-read the wiki page there), but at this point I would just like to see that I can get playback at least. Any help is appreciated!
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