kmid2 help

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Kevin Kofler wrote:

> timidity++ with PulseAudio output just works for me.
> 
I am going to give that a try, as I would like to see if I can find something 
acceptable with pulseaudio (haven't tried fluidsynth with pulse, only alsa, but 
that was definitely very good).

I should note that I am using the default, ie., FluidR3_GM.sf2, sound font.


> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>
What would be better is to make the corresponding package require
"soundfont2-default", and patch in the Fedora defaults.

Duh? Maybe Kevin understands what that means.

> If you go the timidity way, timidity.cfg should work out of the box.
>
Well, it didn't. Tell me what arguments I am supposed to start it with and I will 
try running it from the command line before I call kmidi2. When I let kmidi2 start 
it, I got horrible sound (alsa default, didn't try pulseaudio), kind of like it was 
coming from deep under the ocean.

> Timidity uses the "patches" format of the same default soundfont.
> "Patches" means lower quality and less instruments.
>
Yes, I noticed that patches are huge, so I didn't download any. The default 
timidity.cfg calls for share/soundfonts/default.sf2, which is a symlink to 
FluidR3_GM.sf2. I think this is a sound font, not a patch file.