I'm trying to get NoteEdit working, and I've run into a problem with
inserting notes using an external MIDI keyboard. NoteEdit doesn't
receive any notes from the keyboard. I know that the keyboard
configuration is working, because I can hear it through the
soundsystem, with different channels etc. as selected on the keyboard;
and I know that NoteEdit can use the MIDI output because I can
hear playback from a NoteEdit score. I'm using ALSA and Timidity. Can
anyone suggest where I should look to figure out why NoteEdit doesn't
get input from the keyboard? I'm new to Linux music systems and am
just learning my way around.

Many thanks for any help!

Here are the particulars of my set-up:

NoteEdit: 2.3.4
ALSA: 0.9.8
Timidity: 2.12.0-pre1
TSE3: 0.2.7
Soundcard: Soundblaster AudioPCI (es1371)
Keyboard: MK-4902 (no-name brand)
Linux: Vector Linux 4.0 (light distribution of SlackWare 9.0)
Kernel: 2.4.22

Info from aconnect -li

client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
Connecting To: 63:0
client 64: 'Rawmidi 0 - ES1371' [type=kernel]
0 'ES1371 '
Connecting To: 128:1

Info from aconnect -lo

client 64: 'Rawmidi 0 - ES1371' [type=kernel]
0 'ES1371 '
Connecting To: 128:1
client 128: 'Client-128' [type=user]
0 'TiMidity port 0 '
1 'TiMidity port 1 '
Connected From: 64:0


output of aadebug:


ALSA Audio Debug v0.0.6 - Sun Jan 4 12:12:00 MST 2004
http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug

Kernel ----------------------------------------------------
Linux holmes 2.4.22 #1 Tue Dec 30 23:07:21 MST 2003 i686 unknown

Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
snd-pcm-oss 37188 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 12016 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-seq-oss 26112 1 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi 3552 1 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi-event 3264 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq 33680 4 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-ens1371 10976 2
snd-pcm 56128 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 13444 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6004 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 12640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 3904 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq
snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 38264 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd 29956 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-ens1371
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]

Modules Conf ----------------------------------------------
#alias sound-slot-0 es1371
#post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || : #pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
alias char-major-14 soundcore
#alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 device_mode=0666
options snd-ens1371 index=0
# restore mixer settings from /etc/sound.state
post-install snd-ens1371 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
# save mixer settings to /etc/asound.state
pre-remove snd-ens1371 /usr/sbin/alsactl store

Proc Asound -----------------------------------------------
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.8.
Compiled on Dec 31 2003 for kernel 2.4.22.
0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xb400, irq 5
0: [0- 0]: ctl
8: [0- 0]: raw midi
17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback
16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
1: : sequencer
33: : timer
00-00: ES1371/1 : ES1371 DAC2/ADC : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ES1371/2 : ES1371 DAC1 : playback 1

Dev Snd ---------------------------------------------------
controlC0 hwC2D3 midiC1D2 midiC3D1 pcmC0D4c pcmC1D3p pcmC2D3c
pcmC3D2p
controlC1 hwC3D0 midiC1D3 midiC3D2 pcmC0D4p pcmC1D4c pcmC2D3p
pcmC3D3c
controlC2 hwC3D1 midiC1D4 midiC3D3 pcmC0D5c pcmC1D4p pcmC2D4c
pcmC3D3p
controlC3 hwC3D2 midiC1D5 midiC3D4 pcmC0D5p pcmC1D5c pcmC2D4p
pcmC3D4c
hwC0D0 hwC3D3 midiC1D6 midiC3D5 pcmC0D6c pcmC1D5p pcmC2D5c
pcmC3D4p
hwC0D1 midiC0D0 midiC1D7 midiC3D6 pcmC0D6p pcmC1D6c pcmC2D5p
pcmC3D5c
hwC0D2 midiC0D1 midiC2D0 midiC3D7 pcmC0D7c pcmC1D6p pcmC2D6c
pcmC3D5p
hwC0D3 midiC0D2 midiC2D1 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D7p pcmC1D7c pcmC2D6p
pcmC3D6c
hwC1D0 midiC0D3 midiC2D2 pcmC0D0p pcmC1D0c pcmC1D7p pcmC2D7c
pcmC3D6p
hwC1D1 midiC0D4 midiC2D3 pcmC0D1c pcmC1D0p pcmC2D0c pcmC2D7p
pcmC3D7c
hwC1D2 midiC0D5 midiC2D4 pcmC0D1p pcmC1D1c pcmC2D0p pcmC3D0c
pcmC3D7p
hwC1D3 midiC0D6 midiC2D5 pcmC0D2c pcmC1D1p pcmC2D1c pcmC3D0p
seq
hwC2D0 midiC0D7 midiC2D6 pcmC0D2p pcmC1D2c pcmC2D1p pcmC3D1c
timer
hwC2D1 midiC1D0 midiC2D7 pcmC0D3c pcmC1D2p pcmC2D2c pcmC3D1p
hwC2D2 midiC1D1 midiC3D0 pcmC0D3p pcmC1D3c pcmC2D2p pcmC3D2c

CPU -------------------------------------------------------
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
cpu MHz : 467.736

RAM -------------------------------------------------------
MemTotal: 191040 kB
SwapTotal: 1590424 kB

Hardware --------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)

In article <6f4900b6.0401101146.4d7d1a63@posting.google.com >,
Peter Binkley wrote:
> Many thanks for any help!

I can't help much because I haven't yet done this myself, but I think I
see a problem ...

> Here are the particulars of my set-up:
....
> Soundcard: Soundblaster AudioPCI (es1371)

This is not a hardware MIDI card. It may be possible to do MIDI
emulation with Timidity, but are you sure that the joystick port can
receive MIDI input? If not I'd recommend checking on that, or trying
with a real MIDI card.

> Keyboard: MK-4902 (no-name brand)

Wow, same one I have! I'll be trying with a SB PCI 512 and a 2.6.x
kernel. I would try right now, but cannot find the AC adapter for the
keyboard.
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