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$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
                      HDA Intel HDMI at 0xa0a10000 irq 40
 1 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xa0a14000 irq 39

Use aplay to list devices.

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CS4208 Analog [CS4208 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: CS4208 Digital [CS4208 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Here I guess that card 1 is the hardware device that I want to use for audio output. This gets specified as hw:1 in commands that want it. See the fluidsyncth example.

Start fluidsynth server to act as a virtual midi controller.

fluidsynth --server --audio-driver=alsa -o audio.alsa.device=hw:1 /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

Now you should see the device using aplaymidi to list midi devices (device 128 in the example).

$ aplaymidi -l
 Port    Client name                      Port name
 14:0    Midi Through                     Midi Through Port-0
128:0    FLUID Synth (15831)              Synth input port (15831:0)

Now you can play back a midi file (*.mid) using aplaymidi.

aplaymidi --port=128 trek.mid