From: rick_2047 <rick.chatterbox@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T04:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby midi problem

I have tried qjackctl but i still don't get any sound, everything goes
fine i start timidity and qjackctl the connection is fine but i get no
audio.

On Dec 20, 8:13 pm, Ben Bleything <b...@bleything.net> wrote:
> 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