Hi Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 01.09.2007 10:49: > Jude DaShiell wrote: >> I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out >> missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert >> the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so >> which format and what tool does that conversion? If midi files aren't >> possible to play on debian I'd like to know that too since I may be able >> to do it on my mac. > > You need to download patchset, you have freepats in Debian, but it is > not complete. I recommend Gravis UltraSound patchset, download it from > > http://www.anime.net/~goemon/timidity/goemon.tgz > > Uncompress it to /usr/local/share/midi/. Move the file goemon.cfg to > /etc/timidity/. Than add this line to /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg: > > source /etc/timidity/goemon.cfg
There’s a bit more work necessary since the "dir" option in goemon.cfg does not refer to an absolute path, but other than that this is a great tip! Finally less missing instruments. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules
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