On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:02:59 +0100 Peter J Ross wrote:
> I sympathise deeply, having had endless troubles with MIDI myself. > > As far as I can tell, your problem is that you need to be running > something like TiMidity++ as a midi server for ALSA. > > This command works for me when run as root: > > [~]# timidity --realtime-priority=40 -iA -B10,10 -Os > > I find that's adequate to make KMid, Rosegarden and NoteEdit work > reasonably well. (of course you have to have TiMidity++ installed.) > > Higher settings for realtime priority have caused all kinds of trouble > for me, but it may depend on how much memory you have (I have only > 128MB).
> TiMidity++ will also convert your .mid files to .wav or .ogg. The man > page gives details of the necessary command line options.
Thanks! TiMidity++ was the answer. It will play the files, I don't even need playmidi for that, and it converts directly to 44.1K, stero wav files that I can burn directly to CD without any other conversion necessary. That was exactly what I needed.
Marc
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