I downloaded and installed tuxguitar-common from the aur and was not able to get the sound to work, although everything else seems to work fine. I could not find anything that I thought was relevant when i searched the internet except to have timidity installed, and to select that as the Midi Port, but that does not show as an option (timidity++ is installed). In Tools>Settings>Sounds there is no combination of Midi Sequencer or Midi Port that will produce sound.
My Midi Sequencer options are:
- TuxGuitar Sequencer
- Real Time Sequencer
My Midi Port options are:
- TuxGuitar Synthesizer
- Midi Port-0 [14:0]
- Gervill
I'm not sure if this is needed but here are the plugins that
ARE NOT enabled:
- Gervill plugin
- FluidSynth Output plugin
- OSS output plugin
- Jack Audio Connection Kit plugin support
- Guitar Tuner
As i said, everything else seems to work fine. I am able to add notes to the tablature, the playback animation is working, there is just no sound.
Assuming that you have sound in other applications what is your sound setup?
Fire up timidity++ as an ALSA sequencer interface:
% timidity -iAD
A MIDI out driver named ALSA will appear with 4 devices; select TiMidity:0 and you should be a-ok. There are quite a few sound banks available in the repos or the AUR, just search for
soundfont. I've got
timidity-freepats installed and
soundfont /usr/share/soundfonts/timidity-freepats.sf2
in /etc/timidity++/timidity.cfg.
What does it mean by jack being a makedepend?
It needs jack to build the package but it is optional afterwards?
Thank you for your help.