RES: MIDI

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Hi,

Em Sábado 11 Novembro 2006 11:48, Anne Wilson escreveu:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 23:12, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > 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 run timidity++ in daemon mode (timidity -iAD).
>
> As user, or as root?

You may run it as user.

>
> > It creates a new MIDI
> > device, which I then select as the default MIDI device in KDE Control
> > Center.
>
> Where in Control Center?

Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System -> Hardware
In "Select MIDI device" there will be a device named "Timidity port 0 - ALSA 
device". Select it as the default MIDI device and apply your changes. KDE 
applications will play MIDI now, regardless your sound card has hardware 
wavetable suport or not. No soundfont loading is needed for timidity.

[]'s
Marcelo