I'd want to run the windows editor for my guitar preamp (VOX Tonelab SE) which is connected to the MIDI in and out sockets of my soundcard. The program installs and starts without any problems under wine but it can't find any MIDI ports. MIDI works fine otherwise in Linux - I can read from and write to the sockets with arecordmidi and aplaymidi, but there are no MIDI devices visible in winecfg. I can only see the Wave ins and outs of the PulseAudio, Jack and Esound drivers in the audio tab (BTW, Pulse works fine for me in wine). I haven't fiddled with MIDI under wine for a long time now, but, if my memory doesn't fool me, there used to be some MIDI devices. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Klaus FWIW: - Fedora 12 - wine-1.1.32 (from Fedora) - alsa-lib-1.0.21-3.fc12.x86_64 - soundcard: Terratec DMX6Fire
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:> In winecfg's sound tab, there is no ALSA entry at all, perhaps that is part of the problem (I get sound in Wine through Pulseaudio).Pulseaudio knows nothing about MIDI and can't work with it. In Wine only ALSA backend driver supports MIDI. Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:> And using a soft synth doesn't help, because I want to address the MIDI hardware of my soundcard.You have to properly set everything up, including on the ALSA side too.
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:> And using a soft synth doesn't help, because I want to address the MIDI > hardware of my soundcard. > But thanks anyway. > KlausAs I said, I believe timidity and fluidsynth actually do pick up on your hardware MIDI capabilities when they're found. They basically become a front-end / extra ports to access your MIDI from. Still, you're not seeing an ALSA entry and that's exactly your problem here.