Hello! I’m trying to complete my setup of Openmusic on Linux, but I’m a bit confused about how to implement a microtonal player. As far as I understand it, from what I could piece together from other threads, I’m supposed to use fluidsynth? I’ve now downloaded Qsynth, a fluidsynth GUI, but I’m not sure what to do next. How do I connect it to OM?
Hi nameiwillfortget,
You have two ways to use qsynth via OM:
- The easiest way:
Go directly to the qsynth port:
- More stylish way:
(you can benefit in outputing the output of qsymth into something else say like audacity to record in audio); You should install in this case qjackctl (and pulseaudio-module-jack). But this setup is trickier:
You should also set up correctly qsynth and qjackctl. My personal setup on Debian is:
For qsynth:
And For qjackctl:
Now for the microtuming if everything is ok, you should use the detuning OM method like shown in the OM tutorials Patch 10.
Hope this helps
Best
K
Hope this helps.
Thanks so much! This is immensely helpful, it would be great if that was included in the handbook somewhere!
Glad that it helped.
However, since this is a general linux/midi setup and specific to some linux distributions (this may work or not relatively), and since it is not specific to OM, i don’t know if this could fit in a OM documentation. You can find a lot of stuff about it on internet, ie. qsynth/jack setup and they all differ according to a release. So It is a little bit heavy to maintain.
Sorry. But your remark will be noted!
Don’t be shy if you have another Linux/Om questions. Your are welcome here.
Best
K