Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth with alsa audio driver

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, Joan Quintana wrote:
> I'm new to fluid-dev.
>
> I use Ubuntu Studio (9.04, Jaunty), and I have an external sound card:
> Edirol UA-25EX (hw:1) and of course my laptop internal soundcard (hw:0)
[...]
> But I can't start fluidsynth with alsa audio driver, connecting to my
> external device (hw:1):
>
> $ fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a alsa -o audio.alsa.device='hw:1' -l 
> soundfont.sf2
>
> and the reason is:
> fluidsynth: error: Failed to find a workable audio format
>
> trying with QSynth I can choose two sample formats: 16bits and float
>
> From fluidsynth -o help I think that the parameter to configure is:
> audio.sample-format      STR   [def='16bits']
>
> Any ideas?

UA-25EX in "advanced mode" uses 24 bits samples. This sample format is not yet  
supportted by fluidsynth. You can switch off the "advanced mode" to use 16 
bits samples. 

Regards,
Pedro