hi frank,
--- Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
thanks a million for your answer.
First: Running pd -oss is not deprecated or anything. I mostly use "-oss" myself. So if it works, just stick with it.
So I guess I'll stick with the oss emulation, I just got pd decently married to it. it still strikes me as weird that the oss emulation of alsa is capable of doing things that the underlying alsa doesn't seem to support.
while we're at it, another question regarding midi: you wrote a while ago (http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-10/031793.html) that it is possible to get data from an usb midi controller into pd by using the /dev/midi* files. I actually do have a bunch of them:
vj@thoralf ~ $ ls /dev/midi* -al crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 31. Aug 15:23 /dev/midi crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 0 14. Feb 2006 /dev/midi0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 14. Feb 2006 /dev/midi00 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 18 14. Feb 2006 /dev/midi01 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 34 14. Feb 2006 /dev/midi02 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 50 14. Feb 2006 /dev/midi03 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 50 21. Aug 19:52 /dev/midi3
I understand that I need to load the snd-usb-audio module (pd -listdev without this module returns
input devices:
- OSS MIDI device #1
output devices:
- OSS MIDI device #1
, both are not working) to access the controller. with this module loaded, i get
input devices:
- OSS MIDI device #1
- OSS MIDI device #2
output devices:
- OSS MIDI device #1
- OSS MIDI device #2
, but none if these devices actually works. I tried various iterations of -mididev x , to no avail. am i missing another module? and how do i get alsa to load snd-usb-audio when it starts up? /etc/modules/autoload/kernel-2.6 doesn't seem to be right place, since it gets loaded before alsa starts and blocks sound in pd as a consequence.
once i have this up an working, i owe you a beer. and i'll have to stick notes with "don't you ever touch alsa config again!" all over the place.
thanks, thoralf.
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