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?
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
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?
[root@concerto 19:07:32] root#rpm -qi timidity++ Name : timidity++ Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.11.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 9 Build Date: Tue 17 Feb 2004 03:13:56 AM EST Install Date: Tue 20 Jul 2004 06:13:03 PM EDT Build Host: romaine.build.redhat.com Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: timidity++-2.11.3-9.src.rpm Size : 10659100 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 06 May 2004 06:20:44 PM EDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla URL : http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/ Summary : A software wavetable MIDI synthesizer. Description : TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and player. Install timitidy++ if you'd like to play MIDI files and your sound card does not natively support wave table format.
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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?
[root@concerto 19:07:32] root#rpm -qi timidity++ Name : timidity++ Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.11.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 9 Build Date: Tue 17 Feb 2004 03:13:56 AM EST Install Date: Tue 20 Jul 2004 06:13:03 PM EDT Build Host: romaine.build.redhat.com Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: timidity++-2.11.3-9.src.rpm Size : 10659100 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 06 May 2004 06:20:44 PM EDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla URL : http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/ Summary : A software wavetable MIDI synthesizer. Description : TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and player. Install timitidy++ if you'd like to play MIDI files and your sound card does not natively support wave table format.
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
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...
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, and there is (as far as i have heard) plenty of space on cd4...) - or HW sequencer (including external) - if aviable. Then any app using gst (ex. rythmbox) could easyly play .mid.
But another thing - when i move my mouse over some music-file in nautilus - it displays a little note in a speak-bubble. Is it meant that nautilus should preweiv them that way? Seems like a good idea, but its not working...
Kyrre
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?
... ...
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.
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?
... ...
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.
Okay. Problem is: - I am not a professional musician, only some guy who wondered why i couldn't just play my midi-files - Wish i could do that. only problem is that my knowledge of C is inferior. MIDI also.
But if CCRMA also has a repo, it should be possible to just install the necessary RPMS, right?
Thanks for the hint.
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
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
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?
... ...
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.
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:
1. 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
6. 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
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
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?
... ...
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.
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
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
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?
... ...
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.
And once again ill answer myself.
Bug is out at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132892
now somebody just has to write a (gtk?) frontend to timidity, as kmidi is dead.
lør, 18.09.2004 kl. 22.27 skrev Kyrre Ness Sjobak:
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
Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
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?
... ...
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.
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:26:48 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre@solution-forge.net wrote:
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?
I think the fact that you have to ask the second question, points to a reason why you have to ask the first one. If you have the hardware and the interest in playing midi files, and you can't find an appropriate software for linux that fedora could evaluate for inclusion... that should tell you something about why its not included.
here's how you can be proactive: Find software that works for what you need to do. File a bug report in bugzilla.redhat.com requesting its inclusion making a case that nothing so far in Core provides this functionality Create packages for the software and submit it for QA review at fedora.us if its not already there.
A quick google gives me: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2003-December/msg00099.html
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-de... quote 3.6. Does GStreamer support MIDI ? Not yet. The GStreamer architecture should be able to support the needs of MIDI applications very well however. If you are a developer interested in adding MIDI support to GStreamer we are very interested in getting in touch with you. endquote
Are you that developer? I think perhaps you can serve your own interests by communicating directly with the gstreamer developers.
-jef
søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 01.39 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:26:48 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre@solution-forge.net wrote:
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?
I think the fact that you have to ask the second question, points to a reason why you have to ask the first one. If you have the hardware and the interest in playing midi files, and you can't find an appropriate software for linux that fedora could evaluate for inclusion... that should tell you something about why its not included.
here's how you can be proactive: Find software that works for what you need to do. File a bug report in bugzilla.redhat.com requesting its inclusion making a case that nothing so far in Core provides this functionality Create packages for the software and submit it for QA review at fedora.us if its not already there.
A quick google gives me: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2003-December/msg00099.html
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-de... quote 3.6. Does GStreamer support MIDI ? Not yet. The GStreamer architecture should be able to support the needs of MIDI applications very well however. If you are a developer interested in adding MIDI support to GStreamer we are very interested in getting in touch with you. endquote
Are you that developer? I think perhaps you can serve your own interests by communicating directly with the gstreamer developers.
-jef
Think that is somewhat over my head ;)
But after some googling (thanks for the links, gave me some hints), ill found amSynth ( http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amSynth/index.html ) and MusE ( http://lmuse.sourceforge.net/ ) - which i will test out and report back to bugzilla if any of them seem "worthy".
As a welcome side-effect, we migth by inclusion of midi-sequencer progs acctually prepare the ground for more musicans to swich to linux.
Kyrre
Hmm... anybody know of "jack" rpms for fc2? It seems to be a callback based audio multiplexing server - and i dont like compiling libs...
Hmm.. guess i just do "prefix=/usr/local/jack" and hope i can persuade muse to look for jack there ;)
søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 13.45 skrev Kyrre Ness Sjobak:
søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 01.39 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:26:48 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre@solution-forge.net wrote:
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?
I think the fact that you have to ask the second question, points to a reason why you have to ask the first one. If you have the hardware and the interest in playing midi files, and you can't find an appropriate software for linux that fedora could evaluate for inclusion... that should tell you something about why its not included.
here's how you can be proactive: Find software that works for what you need to do. File a bug report in bugzilla.redhat.com requesting its inclusion making a case that nothing so far in Core provides this functionality Create packages for the software and submit it for QA review at fedora.us if its not already there.
A quick google gives me: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2003-December/msg00099.html
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-de... quote 3.6. Does GStreamer support MIDI ? Not yet. The GStreamer architecture should be able to support the needs of MIDI applications very well however. If you are a developer interested in adding MIDI support to GStreamer we are very interested in getting in touch with you. endquote
Are you that developer? I think perhaps you can serve your own interests by communicating directly with the gstreamer developers.
-jef
Think that is somewhat over my head ;)
But after some googling (thanks for the links, gave me some hints), ill found amSynth ( http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amSynth/index.html ) and MusE ( http://lmuse.sourceforge.net/ ) - which i will test out and report back to bugzilla if any of them seem "worthy".
As a welcome side-effect, we migth by inclusion of midi-sequencer progs acctually prepare the ground for more musicans to swich to linux.
Kyrre
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:26:48PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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?
timidity and midiplay seem to be the popular ones.
Once upon a time, Alan Cox alan@redhat.com said:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:26:48PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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?
timidity and midiplay seem to be the popular ones.
timidity renders in software with its own wavetable set - that's not what the OP asked about. It looks like midiplay is the same sort of thing, but it doesn't seem to have a home anymore. The nicer sound cards have hardware wavetable synthesizers, but there doesn't appear to be a way to use them much under Linux.
I have tried playmidi - compiled for awe32 - and it played (at least it didn't return for the time the midi sequence lasted) - but no sound...
I also found midiplay - but wasn't able to download it (exept the atari version, packed in a .zoo i dont (or at least fileroller dont) know how to open.
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/midiplay_linux/ <- linux http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MIDIPlay/ <- atari
I know what timidity does - the problem is just that the default patcset sucks beyond anything i have formerly seen. The kmidi help page recomends some places to download better patches for timidity, but all the links are broken. The biggest question is really: Why are those not included in timidity by default?
Hmm.. why not? ever-lasting driver issue? We have a /dev/sequencer, why is it so hard to use? Think ill just have to fool around a little bit more, find out more things etc.
søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 04.49 skrev Chris Adams:
Once upon a time, Alan Cox alan@redhat.com said:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:26:48PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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?
timidity and midiplay seem to be the popular ones.
timidity renders in software with its own wavetable set - that's not what the OP asked about. It looks like midiplay is the same sort of thing, but it doesn't seem to have a home anymore. The nicer sound cards have hardware wavetable synthesizers, but there doesn't appear to be a way to use them much under Linux.
-- Chris Adams cmadams@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:49:48PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
thing, but it doesn't seem to have a home anymore. The nicer sound cards have hardware wavetable synthesizers, but there doesn't appear to be a way to use them much under Linux.
ALSA exposes the midi hardware nicely but very few cards have midi and many that do have inferior midi processing to that you can do with a modern processor
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