[PD] Test Audio: just trying to hear anything

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Javier García wrote:
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
>> I'm very sure, that ALSA is installed, otherwise you wouldn't have
>> sound at all. For whatever reason, on some systems the kernel modules
>> for the ALSA midi subsystem aren't properly loaded, this will lead to
>> this error. You can fix this on a running system by "sudo modprobe
>> snd-seq"
> 
> Thanks, now there isnt any error message about alsa but i still dont hear 
> anything...
> 
> I will repeat what i do. This my first step:
> 
> I open Pd >> I push "compute audio" >> Media >> I found "default MIDI" 

hmm, you are basically not interested in MIDI (fixing this is just a
side-product of your problem) but in AUDIO.
as long as you have neiter "OSS" nor "ALSA" nor "JACK" activated (note:
not all 3 options might be present on your system; and "ALSA" is NOT the
same as "ALSA-MIDI") you will not  hear anything.

ALSA-MIDI is really just the seq-subsystem of alsa (for sharing midi
data); it is definitely _not_ ALSA+MIDI
otoh, ALSA is the audio-subsytem of alsa;
you can well run audio over oss (or jack) and midi over alsa.


> activated >> go to "Test Audio and Midi" >> I select "-40" and i dont hear 
> anything...
> 

this might sound trivial, but:
try selecting "-20", probably -40 is just to low for your
soundcard/setting....


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