Re: How to set up standalone Zyn or Yoshimi

On Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:09:40 -0700
prad <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] writes:
> 
> 
> > Once I solve this I want to try the standalone Yoshimi
> >
> don't know if this is of any help to you, krsgrdn, but i have just had
> some success with rg and yoshimi after considerable fiddling (due to my
> own ignorance about all this). i posted how i did it on linuxmusicians:
> https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=24573&p=145728#p145728

Thanks, I looked at it and I sometimes lurk on that forum too but my problems are before that stage so to speak. Found the Yoshimi.rgd but I have no ~/.local/share/rosegarden/library folder to put it into. I'm working with Suse Tumbleweed right now using Yoshimi-2.2.0 and rosegarden-22.06 which are both bleeding-edge. So, following my usual procedure 

1 start qjackctl
2 start qsynth
3 start yoshimi standalone

I can fiddle with yoshimi and even load a patch and play its virtual keyboard. I could do exactly the same with Zybaddsubfx standalone but will now just keep things simple, so

4 start rosegarden

In the qjackctl 'connect' window Yoshimi is connected to system, I also connect it to rosegarden (probably not needed). 

As a result there is no trace of yoshimi anything in rosegarden. The rosegarden "Manage MIDI Devices" window shows only a single General MIDI entry in the left Playback window and in MIDI-Outputs only two input ports as being available: 129:0 Synth-Input and 14:0 Midi-Through. There SHOULD be another port there for each standalone synth started, such as yoshimi OR zynadsubfx, as soon as I start Yoshimi but there isn't. THIS is my problem at this point (as far as I can tell).