Can't play MIDI the same time as any other sound.

Hello there.
I am a bass player and therefore I use GTick from [extra] as a metronome and TuxGuitar from [community] as GuitarPro tablature reader. I have a problem with (at least) this two programs: when I try to start the metronome or to play a tablature, I get error messages if any sound is playing, no matter if it is Amarok playing music, or TuxGuitar playing a tablature.
For non-musicians, a GuitarPro tablature is a transcription of a song which can be played through MIDI at the same time as you can see the partiture, or the notes played on an image of a guitar neck or a keyboard.
This happens every time I want to play some MIDI from this two apps: if I have a tablature open with TuxGuitar I can't play another tablature on another instance of TuxGuitar, or even start GTick to play alone with the metronome. I have to close TuxGuitar and start GTick, or open the other tablature in the same instance of TuxGuitar, which is annoying when, for example, trying to compare two tablatures of the same song.
This makes me think that my system can't play any MIDI when some other sound is playing, but I don't know any other MIDI apps to try. Any ideas on how to setup multiple MIDI playing? I've read on the Wiki [1] that it was necessary to enable dmix some time ago to allow multiple programs play sound at once, but this is not necessary since ALSA 1.0.9rc2, and I have alsa-lib 1.0.17a-1.
Thank you in advance.
Bye!
[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … ing_system.

Surgat_ wrote:What does "rewrite ALSA so it software-mixes OSS" mean?
It means, "do some horrendously geeky stuff which only a very small proportion of the population have the knowledge, competence, ability and free time to do for no pay."
You're looking for an easy solution. There is no easy solution.
It's the app that says "ALSA-compatible", and it's the app that I'm criticizing for that statement. Not you.
Welcome to the ridiculous world of Linux audio - see jungle and my recommendation. This is what free software produces - an unholy mess of conflicting, contradicting and overlapping standards.
Last edited by brebs (2008-10-01 21:04:34)

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Can't play MIDI the same time as any other sound.

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