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kete

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Registered: 2015-01-01

Posts: 36

[solved] LMMS not making sound

I have not been able to make sound with LMMS. Here is what I tried.

sudo pacman -S lmms

(4/9) installing fluidsynth                       
[######################] 100%

  > FluidSynth comes with a daemon. Start/enable it with systemd.
  > Before that, you need a soundfont and some preconfiguration:
      /etc/conf.d/fluidsynth

sudo pacman -S soundfont-fluid

/etc/conf.d/fluidsynth

# Mandatory parameters (uncomment and edit)
#SOUND_FONT=/path/to/a/soundfont
SOUND_FONT=/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM2-2.sf2
#AUDIO_DRIVER=alsa|jack|pulseaudio
AUDIO_DRIVER=alsa
# see 'fluidsynth -a help'

# Optional parameters (may be helpful)
OTHER_OPTS='-m alsa_seq -r 48000'
# man fluidsynth, please

sudo systemctl start fluidsynth

I tried both jack and alsa with and without OTHER_OPTS.

sudo systemctl restart fluidsynth

I don't have Pulseaudio installed. Lmms started up initially with
Pulseaudio selected. I changed it to jack and alsa depending on
/etc/conf.d/fluidsynth and restarted Lmms, and now Lmms starts with
"Dummy" sound selected.

Last edited by kete (2015-05-17 16:57:27)

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: [solved] LMMS not making sound

can you try with a midi file

fluidsynth -a alsa -m alsa_seq -l -i /usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM2-2.sf2 example.midi

kete

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Registered: 2015-01-01

Posts: 36

Re: [solved] LMMS not making sound

Thanks, I saw that on the wiki, but I don't have a midi file.

PS—VLC is now giving the following error:

The audio device "default" could not be used:
Permission denied.

Last edited by kete (2015-05-16 23:04:27)

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: [solved] LMMS not making sound

Tried rebooting ?

kete

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Registered: 2015-01-01

Posts: 36

Re: [solved] LMMS not making sound

Tried rebooting ?

No, that helped I’m ashamed to say as a GNU/Linux user, but I’m getting
sound after installing Timidity. Sorry for being dim, but since the
instructions do not explicitly instruct to install a package, I don’t
install it. I’ll try to make a comment on the wiki. Thanks