From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2008-12-21T13:13:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby midi problem

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008, rick_2047 wrote:
> Ok i was going through the book "Ruby practical Projects" and right at
> the first chapter i had this problem. The first chapter is all about
> calling the alsa raw midi functions in ruby to play midi from ruby. I
> think i did everything right but still i get no sound. I debuged my
> project but at the lines when the function call is made nothing
> happens, there is not even an error. Can anybody give me any pointers
> to what should i do. Here is my code ..

A couple of things!

1) Did you follow the steps to patch the MIDI output to your
synthesizer?  I've had good luck with qjackctl.

2) If you're just doing this as an exercise, cool... if not, you should
check out MIDIator, which just packages up the Practical Ruby Projects
code in a gem with some extra niceness :)  But, if you're trying to
learn please do continue with the book.

Ben