[Bug 248597] Review Request: wildmidi - Midi Wavetable Synth Lib

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Summary: Review Request: wildmidi - Midi Wavetable Synth Lib


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248597





------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2007-07-17 13:58 EST -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Out of curiousity, what makes this better or worse than timidity for the same
> sorts of things (as SDL_mixer uses that).

The gstreamer midi plugins (both libtimidity and wildmidi) author claims that
wildmidi has better quality. SDL_mixer's timidity code and libtimidity which is
derived from SDL_mixer's code have had some severe surgery to make them less CPU
hogs then the real timidity, sacrificing quality for speed. Try listening to the
same midi both through playmus and to the real timidity from timidity++, for the
clear difference. wildmidi tries to be fast without sacrificing quality.

With that said, the sad comment must be made that all 3 upstreams are in a
trouble some state. SDL_mixer (midi) and libtimidity development is dead, and
wildmidi development is comatose (sept 2006 post saying there back, after that
silence again).

My main reason for packaging this is to make both gstreamer midi plugins
available to users.


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