Ubuntu Multimedia :: Play Soundfonts As An Instrument?
Jun 21, 2010
I am a composer with no money whose old music computer and keyboard were destroyed in an accident. I can't afford to replace them. However, I still have 320+ gb of soundfonts that I would like to play on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 machine. No composing now; I just want to play them on my computer keyboard. The trouble is, I can't find any native Linux app that works.
I used wine install the demo version of FL Studio 9, and I can play my soundfonts with it, but the latency is terrible. I have to set the latency to 65 milliseconds before I get anything but a stuttering mess.
I'd really like to use Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard, but the sound doesn't work, and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. The System Testing detects my sound device as "DA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 21"
since when does NVidia manufacture sound equipment? Is this a motherboard with integrated sound?
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Jan 17, 2010
I'm trying to get audio from a keyboard into my computer. I have a 1/8' to 1/4' adapter, and I can hear the sound from the other end when I connect my earphones to the keyboard, but if I connect it to my computer's microphone port, it doesn't even recognize something connected there. Sound preferences tell me that there are two microphones connected (two built-in microphones), and so does Jack.How do I get it to detect the keyboard? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, if that's of any relevance.
[edit] I also tried connecting this computer to another computer (i.e. Speakers are connected to computer 2, a 1/8' cable goes from the speaker's earphone socket and into computer 1's microphone in). I expected the sound produced by computer 2 to go to computer 1 like regular microphone input would, but it still didn't detect anything and persisted in telling me that there are only two sound inputs on the computer.
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Sep 4, 2010
I'm trying to get audio from a keyboard into my computer. I have a 1/8' to 1/4' adapter, and I can hear the sound from the other end when I connect my earphones to the keyboard, but if I connect it to my computer's microphone port, it doesn't even recognize something connected there. Sound preferences tell me that there are two microphones connected (two built-in microphones), and so does Jack. How do I get it to detect the keyboard? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit.
[edit] I also tried connecting this computer to another computer (i.e. Speakers are connected to computer 2, a 1/8' cable goes from the speaker's earphone socket and into computer 1's microphone in). I expected the sound produced by computer 2 to go to computer 1 like regular microphone input would, but it still didn't detect anything and persisted in telling me that there are only two sound inputs on the computer.
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Sep 23, 2010
I'm trying to get audio from a keyboard into my computer. I have a 1/8' to 1/4' adapter, and I can hear the sound from the other end when I connect my earphones to the keyboard, but if I connect it to my computer's microphone port, it doesn't even recognize something connected there. Sound preferences tell me that there are two microphones connected (two built-in microphones), and so does Jack.
How do I get it to detect the keyboard? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, if that's of any relevance.
[edit] I also tried connecting this computer to another computer (i.e. Speakers are connected to computer 2, a 1/8' cable goes from the speaker's earphone socket and into computer 1's microphone in). I expected the sound produced by computer 2 to go to computer 1 like regular microphone input would, but it still didn't detect anything and persisted in telling me that there are only two sound inputs on the computer.
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Mar 10, 2010
After many days of trying to tweak Ubuntu 9.10 desktop i386. This subject will focus on my dvd drive. ...Here is what I have done, but I'm not sure what I did or still need to do, or to do different. ...
Basically the problem is, I can't play store bought DVDs, but I can play my copies of them.
When using MDPlayer that I added to Ubuntu, I can play the copies of my store bought DVDs, but not the originals. However, when using Ubuntu 9.10's movie player, it wont do anything and I'll have to do a force quit to close it.
I learned that this may because there is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution, as I'm sure you already knew.
...Yet, Most people have worked around these issues.
I came across the Medibuntu site: [url]
Running the Terminal, I added the bash command that adds Medibuntu's repositiry to Ubuntu. It also adds Medibuntu's GPG key to the keyring.
(The sudo wget - etc etc etc --quiet update)
Then I jumped down to the... "This command should be run in the Terminal, after adding the repository:" ...And did that. (sudo sed -e 's/ etc etc etc /medibuntu.list)
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Oct 15, 2010
i just installed 10.10 on my girls laptop (Acer Aspire 5735z) hoping it would fix the old problem i had with playing real dvd's. it didnt. it keeps saying "Could not read from Resource". when i try with VLC is say "Could not read from file". but if i put in a burned movie, it plays fine. i checked and it has libdvdcss2, libdvdnav4, and libdvdread4 installed. i get the same problems with my laptop (toshiba portege m400 tablet) which runs fedora 13.
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Feb 28, 2010
Anyone else struggling to play iplayer video? I've got the proprietary Flash plugin, which means it's probably not this "SWF Authentication" thing that there's been so much talk about.
I've rebooted, tried all sorts of tinkering, it loads the applet (I can see that Flash is loading OK because other things work, and right clicking on the applet gives the Flash menu)
However, clicking the play button does nothing.
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May 2, 2010
is it possible to configure my midi play back on windows 7 to play that one of the 2:[URL]..
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Jun 30, 2010
when I try to play music on amarok it just won't play, it just loads lyrics and then, nothing. on rytmbox everthing works fine but amarok don't work.
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Aug 11, 2010
I need to play or preferably convert (i.e. to MP3) old SNG files, which contain voice records. From what I could find, it's basically a MIDI created by synthetiser. I think it was recorded by some ancient VLC player. I failed so far to play it on anything I could download.
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Mar 10, 2015
I have tried to play mp3 files with sox play.
The result I get is:
play FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'
I have installed all libsox packages I could find, including libsox-fmt-mp3 and libmad0.
sox -h though, gives me:
AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb amr-nb amr-wb anb au avi avr awb cdda cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 ffmpeg flac fssd gsm gsrt hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu m4a m4b maud mp4 mpg nist ogg prc raw s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sds sf sl sln smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox wav wavpcm wmv wv wve xa
PLAYLIST FORMATS: m3u pls
AUDIO DEVICE DRIVERS: alsa ao oss ossdsp pulseaudio
(no mp3 mentioned there).
The reason I try to play mp3 files with sox is that I wanted to play a playlist with different formats and feed it to ices2 through a pipe, ie :
sox Musik/storlista.pls -t raw - | ices2 ices-pcm.xml sox
FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'
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Feb 20, 2010
I am trying the wrap feature for the first time. I followed the instruction as mentioned in this link URl...but I am getting an error saying "undefine reference to __wrap_malloc.I followed all the steps, but the post was a decade old, I am sure something has changed? or am I missing something.
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Jul 17, 2010
How would someone with very little programming experience go about creating a custom virtual musical instrument? Each key would produce a tone of a specified frequency when clicked. Instead of being limited to a piano keyboard layout, each key would be movable. Holding the Shift key would allow multiple keys to sound at once. (See attachment for what it might look like.)I know there are dozens of possibilities (Flash, Java, etc.) Which would be best?
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Jan 31, 2011
Whenever I plug my Zune in, Rhythmbox recognizes all the songs on it but when I doubleclick on a song to play it, the song doesn't play and Rhythmbox quits. Any suggestions on how to fix it? I'm running a Dell XPS 410 with 4GB RAM and a 1.75 GHz processor.Also, I imported a CD and it plays fine.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am looking for a program to extract a single instrument (guitar) for the purpose of learning to play it.
I don't care if it costs $ or not as long as it is native to UBUNTU 9.10 .
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Aug 11, 2010
I'm an italian student that's making a project for an exam of the university.I'm trying to install a usb driver to talk with an instrument that my profalso the drivers were given by my prof. the driver now I'm trying to install is called:libhid-0.2.12.origI've opened it and I have run the programm called configure.I had the same problem of Gabyx (in a topic in the section linux Programming & Scripting) but I think I've resolved it in the same way suggested by Lakerdonald....now after I run configure appears:
Code: configure: Using db2man stylesheet: /usr/share/kde4/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/docbook.xsl
configure: creating ./config.status
[code]....
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Aug 23, 2009
To get multimedia working, or explain what I'm doing wrong.
The problem is that none of the video players doesn't play video, they show only black window and play audio.
I have Fedora 11 Leonidas, fully up-to-date.
I have installed rpmfusion and livna repository.
I have installed following packages:
When I try to play video with totem, it doesn't output any error, but just doesn't play video.
with mplayer:
xine and kaffeine just say:
vlc:
I tried several different files, which works perfectly in windows and ubuntu.
I installed windows binary codecs for mplayer to /usr/lib/codec/
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Sep 13, 2010
I downloaded the xvid codec from: PackMan:: Informationen zum Paket xvidcore, and the install was successful.I'm trying to play an xvid file, and Kaffeine is saying it cannot play all file formats, would I like to install additional support. When I click yes, it asks me for additional repositories.
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Aug 9, 2011
Normally I find everything I need either in the documentation or forum, but it's been months, and this time I'm stumped. I'm posting the results of my latest tests, so I'm really sorry about the length of this post.
I can't play DVDs unless they've been burned by myself or a friend. I had no problems until around the beginning of April. I was running 11.2 on both my laptop and desktop. I think an update changed something. This was before 11.2 was officially retired a week or so later. I wanted to upgrade to 11.4 anyway, so I began with my laptop. During installation I wiped everything from my hard disk by creating new partitions and formatting them. After installation I installed the multimedia packages using one-click (opensuse-guide.org, not opensuse-community.org, although I did read what they said). I know one-click is not ideal, but I was curious. The result was that I still couldn't play DVDs.
I did a fresh installation, just to be on the safe side. This time I installed the packages according to Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide by caf4926. But I still couldn't play DVDs, so I went through the thread Check your multimedia problem in ten steps. Then I ran mmcheck (v2.35). I tried a few times, experimented, and in the end did another fresh install.
In the meantime, on my desktop, which still has 11.2 on it, I found the file which had been changed and changed it back, so I could play DVDs on it again. It was in /etc/udev/rules.d/, 70-persistent-cd.rules. This does not appear to be the problem in 11.4 on my laptop.
I have again installed the packages according to the multimedia installation guide, and done the ten-step check and run mmcheck and these are the results as they stand:
I couldn't find a package called mplayerplug-in. I used zypper to look for it.
I tried installing the totem packages in a previous installation, but they didn't make a difference, so I left them out this time.
I deinstalled my jdk, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference, except that I get an error notification everytime I want to use LibreOffice. And I need it, so I'm putting it back soon.
So, these are my packages:
And this is what happens when I try to play a DVD using Kaffeine (since I don't an error message except from Kaffeine, and I've forgotten where my logs are):
And then comes Read error from: Error reading from DVD over the GUI.
And nothing else happens... I get no feedback from smplayer whatsoever. It opens, trys to read the DVD, and sits there. Even on the console.
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Sep 1, 2011
I have installed the lmms-vst package (converted from a deb package) but I still not see the VeSTige Instrument in the Instrument plugins list. I really want to use VST plugins.
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Nov 24, 2010
I just installed 11.4 and its working like a dream, only I cant seem to play .avi files. does anyone know a solution for this?
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Jan 10, 2010
I can not get dvd's to play on either movie player that comes with ubuntu and vlc. can you please explain in detail because I'm new to Linux
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Feb 5, 2010
I have problems paying dvd movies ... when using movie player it either crashes as soon as I try to play the movie or I get an error saying can not read from resource
I installed VLC media player but that dont work either
what am I suppose to do ?
The dvd mounts, I can go into the dvd and see the files but cant play it
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Apr 9, 2010
I got a new laptop, had an older one running ubuntu 9.10. The newer laptop is working great except I can't play DVD's. I am not able to figure out if the DVD drive is bad, need more codecs/drivers, or it had to do with the graphics card.
Somebody told me to type lspci to see what you system is running. So I did that and will copy and paste it here for people to look at. I have read that some ATI cards are still having issues, and the drivers aren't correct or can be correctly configured. Watching videos from my hard drive works, and ..... and things like that. So for the life of me I can't figure out why dvd's won't work. I have VLC players, and GNOME player, and nothing works. The standard player that comes with ubuntu needs plugins it can't find, and says my URI header is wrong? code...
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Jun 18, 2010
I have tried to play MP3 but both default players tell me I need an MP3 plugin and show me 3 gstreamers.
I am not sure wgbuich one or all I should download to play my mp3's.
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Jun 25, 2010
Am on karmic and am trying to play a VCD, but I get various error messages across players.
VLC Media Player says:
File reading failed:
VLC could not read the file.(It flashes the message 7 times to make sure I get the point, apparently)
mplayer says:
Seek Failed
The VCD plays in Win XP. I have medibuntu and other plugins installed and can play other VCDs most of the time...
So far, have tried to change VLC's video output to Open GL and X11, after looking at other suggestions on this and other forums.
Have also tried to open the avseq01.dat type of files directly, i.e., instead of doubleclicking the videocd icon on the desktop)
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Aug 3, 2010
Tried playing a .avi movie using vlc and i keep getting the "mp4v" error. I have the sound of the movie but no video.
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Oct 28, 2010
I have installed Kubuntu 10.10 on an EEETop Asus, which runs quite smoothly. The problem is that I can't make it play DVDs: inserting a DVD-Video (I've tried with a Bourne DVD), Dragon Player can't read and the window screen remains black; VLC opens the first window of the DVD, but when I select the language "English or Italian", it stops and nothing.
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Nov 21, 2010
i cant get any dvd to play what am i doing wrong or have not done to get it to work
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Dec 24, 2010
I can't get any DVDs to play. I've tried MPlayer, VLC, Totem, KMPlayer. The player puts out an error dialogue box or just tries to play the DVD forever. It's a "hollywood" DVD purchased from Best Buy. I booted into Windows and played the DVD fine with Windows Media Player. No issues whatsoever. What the heck is wrong with Ubuntu?
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