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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Jonathan Gardner <jgardner@jonathangardner.net>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Gigabyte 880GM-USB3 MIDI and Dolby 5.1/7.1 issues
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:52:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D00C2EA.1060204@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimb5AnPm13d0kpMmjq4nOTH0dXA_VyO2CXbr_bQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> First, with my older motherboard, I could control the various output
> and input levels of the channels. With this motherboard, I only have
> one channel "Internal Audio Analog Stereo".

This looks like PulseAudio's idea of a user-friendly abstraction.
Try "alsamixer -D hw:0".

> Second, I never really got MIDI working, at least not that I recall in
> my 10 years of Linux. I know MIDI is possible, I just don't know what
> it takes. I've been playing with musescore which apparently plays the
> notes over MIDI so you can hear what you wrote, which would be nice.

Your mainboard doesn't support MIDI, but I guess you don't have any
external MIDI devices anyway.

To play back MIDI data, you need some synthesizer.  Try FluidSynth.


Regards,
Clemens

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-09 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09 11:16 Gigabyte 880GM-USB3 MIDI and Dolby 5.1/7.1 issues Jonathan Gardner
2010-12-09 11:28 ` Jonathan Gardner
2010-12-09 11:52 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-12-09 12:12   ` Jonathan Gardner
2010-12-09 13:03     ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-12-09 18:56       ` Jonathan Gardner
2010-12-13  8:52         ` Clemens Ladisch

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