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.