MIDI

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:24 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 12 November 2006 23:25, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:17 +0200, 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.
> >
> > I've about given up on native midi support, so I use timidity which
> > works like a champ. It works and sounds great for midi files, if all you
> > want to do is listen to them. Ric
> 
> So how exactly are you using it?  Just from the CLI - 'timidity filename.mid'?
Yup, works like a charm... it could use updating as there are soundfont
files for timidity that I don't believe are installed by default.
Listening to "Here comes the sun" George Harrison. A good way to start
the day! Ric