Re: [fluid-dev] Reading input from a MIDI device

[Vesa Paatero]

> > I'm just getting started with FluidSynth and my problem is that I cannot
> > get input from a MIDI keyboard... and I can't find any pertinent switches
> > or help although the man page clearly says that FluidSynth can read
> > input from MIDI devices.
>    If you are using ALSA, you need to connect the MIDI keyboard to the 
> fluidsynth input port.
>    Use the aconnect command.  First to identify the addresses involved 
> (aconnect -ol and aconnect -il).
>    Then to actually connect those ports.
>    Look in /proc/asound/seq/clients for the ports as well.
>    

Thank you, Dave, I got it working with aconnect and it works well, too: 
the previous
system I used had a latency problem but FluidSynth seems nicely real-time
capable.
     Would it be a good idea to add something about MIDI input connections
to the wiki or somewhere?

Regards,
Vesa