Re: [fluid-dev] Sending MIDI Events from a MIDI Keyboard on Mac OS X

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Sunday 27 March 2011, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I thought by reading the man page that I could just plug my USB MIDI 
> Keyboard, launch fluidsynth with a soundfont as argument and play.
> But it seems I'm missing something.
> I tried 'fluidsynth -d -m coremidi x.sf2' but I don't see any MIDI events 
> being received.
> 
> Any hints ?
> Thx.

FluidSynth creates in Mac OSX a virtual MIDI port, just like in Linux/ALSA. You 
need to connect to this port your USB MIDI interface port, using a MIDI 
router/patch bay software like this one:
http://notahat.com/midi_patchbay

Regards,
Pedro