Hmm... forgot something... Step 5.1: chmod -R 755 /usr/local/eawpats
lør, 18.09.2004 kl. 20.44 skrev Kyrre Ness Sjobak:
Okay. It took a while, but right now i am listening to Time(Pink Floyd).mid in timidity with the "eawpats" patchset, and it sounds quite nice :D
Here is what i did:
- download the eawpats src.rpm (all other links was broken). Try to
install it with rpm -ivh, find that it broke timidity (made it only spew a lot of garbage, f.ing up my terminal, and generally not do anything usefull). Reinstall timidity. 2. Open the source-rpm in fileroller. Find a .rar file inside it. Open that in file-roller. 3. Extract the rar. Encountered a bug in file-roller: if i opened a zip file (the src.rpm) in file-roller, and then opened another zip (the RAR archive inside), everything works out well. But if i then close the first window, and THEN try to unzip (unrar acctually) the rar, it simply does nothing. Absolutly nothing - think this might be some of the same case as this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132478 4. Try again, and extract the .rar into /usr/local/eawpats 5. Read "install.txt" carefully, and insert those lines at the end of /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg:
#extra patches dir /usr/local/eawpats source gravis.cfg source gsdrums.cfg source gssfx.cfg source xgmap2.cfg
- Play a midifile:
[kyrre@kyrre MIDI]$ timidity -int Pink\ Floyd/Time.mid (the -int option gives a nice ncurces "gui" which shows some stats etc) Enjoy!
I will now post a RFE to "distribution" on bugzilla.
man, 13.09.2004 kl. 18.37 skrev Kyrre Ness Sjobak:
Yes, i have found it, and i am downloading the "eawpats" src.rpm right now. (hmm... sound-font source-rpm?) I will (as soon as i have figured out to do with a "source"-rpm... Any help, links etc? I feel ashamed not knowing how to handle them!) test those patches asap, and will when i have tested them contact ccrma for licensing information etc.
And if all goes well, ill find some gui for it - i have found kmid, but not tested it this far. Maybe find a GTK-based one as well, or persuade a friend of mine into learning me GTK :P if i cant find one (maybe make it python-based?). Then i will report back to bugzilla (which version? i am currently running FC2) with a RFE.
Does that seem good? First time i acctually do any real work to enchase Fedora Core :D
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søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 16.57 skrev Janina Sajka:
Kyrre Ness Sjobak writes:
søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 01.11 skrev Janina Sajka:
Kyrre Ness Sjobak writes:
Hmm... Does anybody know why Fedora haven't included a simple midi-player, which simply sends things to your soundcard for rendering, which in turn plays it?? And does anybody know about a good such program?
Huh? Did timidity++ disappear? Or, am I misunderstanding your question?
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Hmm... what if i (as many others) are so lucky to have a HW-based midi-playing soundcard (such as the AWE 64)? Methinks maybe they wants to use it...
Are you aware of Planet CCRMA which is an entire distribution for musicians based on Fedora?
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
I mention CCRMA because it's Fedora and rpm based and aimed at professional musicians.
However, I would also agree that support for driving MIDI instruments directly is weak on Linux. So, I heartily second Jeff's suggestion to get involved adding MIDI support to gstreamer--if that's something you're able to contribute.
Could it be possible to do something like MS does - in the gstreamer setup, give an option to either use timidity (with a full patchset - the patches included don't even rival my old SB16,
The CCRMA repository does have timidity with a better set of instruments, fortunately.