On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:06:20 +0100 Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once I'd fired up the file I wanted to play, I had to right click on > each track and assign it to a midi device (software midi device in my > case). Hmm. I tried that, and got it haflway pointed to 128:1 (timidity) but still no sound output. I can play them on the command line with timidity - and that's the only way they have been able to play for a very long time since I first discovered rosegarden over a year ago. Specifically, there's not an easy way to distinguish between which output device goes to which port - it's trial and error until you discover for instance that output device #3 is 128:0 (ttimidity -iA running in background). Timidity is too slow here to run in real time (Athlon 1ghz, 2.6.13 kernel, sarge). There are too many skips and places where it repeats notes over and over again (buffer probs?). Secondly, even when sfxload is run, timidity doesn't use these sound fonts, right? Thus something like Bach's cello suites don't sound anything like a cello. I thought this soundblaster live 5.1 card was supposed to do all that midi stuff - please -- i''ve gotten better results with an adlib. Yet, although I am pretty sure this worked once (early 2001? on Mandrake?) I have not been able to get any sound out of midi save for using timidity <mid file>. Am I not understanding something fundamental here? Isn't the Soundblaster supposed to have an onboard midi sequencer or something? Or is it simply a sequencer, not a synthesizer (i.e, in I'm supposed to be able to send a midi event (say a b flat at a particular pitch with a particular tone bank setting) to the hardware device directly, and expect a cello sound out the speakers??? Come on - rosegarden4 is so cool - I like the equation editor, haven't been able to play with something this cool since back in the win days using roland mpu 401 hardware & special windows software)... help > Joe. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
