PriMus

What works

Everything should work right out of the box and very stable, as far as I can tell: Midi, printing etc. Most problems, that arose for me, had to do with wine and configuration.

If anything doesn't work, the developer is always concerned to make it run under linux/wine also.

What does not

Sometimes there are problems with sound, but probably they are wine or ubuntu-related. On my laptop there are some issues with the Control key , but I'm pretty sure that this has to do with wine (or ubuntu) also - I'm using there the alpha version of ubuntu 9.04. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Most things I notate I do with it under ubuntu / linux, and it should work without problems. 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

It took me a long time to find this out. This is not wine related but always works if you want to have a midi-synthesizer running in background. 

• First install fluidsynth using your package manager
• Check that a sound font was installed into /usr/share/sounds/sf3/ and chose one for the script below.
• Now, for KDE:
  • Create the ~/.local/share/applications/fluidsynth.desktop with content like

  • [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Version=1.0
    GenericName=Midi Synthesizer
    Name=Fluidsynth
    TryExec=/usr/bin/fluidsynth
    Exec=/usr/bin/fluidsynth --no-shell --server --audio-driver=pulseaudio --midi-driver=alsa_seq --sample-rate 44100 -o synth.cpu-cores=2 /usr/share/sounds/sf3/FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3
    # for debug add --dump remove --no-shell
    # if you need more midi channels, add --midi-channels=
    # for less background CPU use add --chorus 0 --reverb 0
    Categories=Audio;System;
    StartupNotify=false
    X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60
    Terminal=false
    #for debug: true

  • I am no pro in KDE desktop files. And I did not fully test this yet, so experiment a bit with it. You can start it from KDE-Startmenu like any other app.
  • When you are finished add it to System Settings/Startup/Auto Start/Desktop File. It will automaticalls start at login.
• For other Desktops this should work similar...