MIDI

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 11 November 2006 07:10, Anne Wilson wrote:
>On Friday 10 November 2006 22:45, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> On Friday 10 November 2006 23:17, Alan Lake wrote:
>> > I am not able to play MIDI files with XMMS or KMID.
>> >
>> > I'm running vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen on an AMD x86_64 box.  My
>> > sound card is on the motherboard and is an nForce3 AC'97.  I added
>> > AMIDI-plug 0.6 to XMMS.  I'm using ALSA backend 0.8, which outputs
>> > to Midi Through at port 14:0.  My mixer setting is 0:Synth:0.  The
>> > Alsamixer shows PCM as turned on.  MIDI music appears to play, but
>> > no sound comes out.  XMMS does play some other formats, like ogg.
>> >
>> > Thanks for helping to figure out how to configure xmms so as to be
>> > able to play MIDI files.
>>
>> The only soundcards you are going to be able to play midi with are
>> Audigy ones using emu drivers, and thats only after loading
>> soundfonts. For other cards you will need to use Qsynth for example,
>> load a soundfont onto that, and then play Kmid through that.
>>
>> Soundfonts are available from many places on the Internet, but
>> hammersound is one I use. http://www.hammersound.net/
>>
>> A GM one is probably the best to get.
>
>Nigel, I know I did this before, with the sound fonts from the Audigy
>installation disk, but I can't remember where they had to be copied to. 
> Can you help?  Thanks

Copy them anyplace (permanent) you like, sfxload will use the path you 
give it.  ISTR I have that in my rc.local file for my FC2 boot drive, but 
haven't set that up yet for FC6.

>Anne

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Cheers, Gene