On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:06:35 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? If you want to use as soundfont with timidity you have to configure timidity to use a soundfont with something like: #specify the location to find patch sets/soundfonts dir /usr/share/sounds/sf2 #Patches to load for bank 0 bank 0 soundfont JClive21.sf2 order=0 : in /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg. sfxload is for loading .sbk or .sf2 files when using the oss driver with compatible soundblaster cards. asfxload is for loading .sbk or .sf2 files when using the alsa driver with compatible soundblaster cards. Compatible cards would be AWE32, AWE64, Live, and Audigy cards. I believe for Audigy cards it currently only works for cards the use the emu10k1 driver. It looks to me like there is no midi support for cards using the ca0106 driver. I believe the AWE32 only used .sbk files, AWE64 could use both .sbk files and .sf2 files. The newer cards can only use .sf2 files. The README.Debian file in /usr/share/awesfx tells you how to load a soundfont and how to make it load automatically when the snd_emu10k1_synth is loaded. If you are required to know a port number and you have pmidi installed you can issue the command: pmidi -l : and get a list the midi devices that you have. The ones that show on my system are: 62:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 64:0 EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3 : Using any one of the 4 wavetable devices should give you audible midi playback if everything is loaded and working correctly. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
