Thanks, that is what I need.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 5:01 pm
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: soft midi connections, linux
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk

> Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > thanks. As far as hardware midi is concerned, I'm OK, but I was
> > wondering about soft midi, say from Timidity. Does alsa provide
> > soft midi connections by default (the 'virMIDI' ones?), or do you
> > have to configure them?
> >
> > Also, I am using -+rtmidi=alsa (no portmidi in the system I want
> > to do this, the OLPC). If I list with aconnect -l I generally get
> > just the hardware ports. How to get the soft ones?
> modprobe snd-virmidi
> 
> That will give you four virtual MIDI ports that you can address 
> and 
> connect just like the real things.
> 
> Best,
> 
> dp
> 
> 
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