Re: [fluid-dev] ALSA Raw connection (Re: Reading input from a MIDI device)

[Vesa Paatero]

Thank you for your help, Aere and David!

David wrote:
> Forget about aconnect, qjackctl etc. If all you want is FluidSynth
> reading input directly from the keyboard, just specify to use the ALSA
> raw midi driver type, and the device to read from. And the way to do
> that on the command line is what I said earlier: add " -m alsa_raw -o
> midi.alsa.device=hw:<card name>", where <card name> is replaced with
> your card name.

I finally got it working; last time I thought that "-o midi.alsa.device"
specifies the output sound card but after reading your instruction
carefully I found that the MIDI keyboard is also shown as a card in
/proc/asound .

Regards,
Vesa