On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? Timidity does conversion and depending on the speed of your computer conversion may be the best option. To get a good sound out of timidity I use soundfonts. You can find some at: http://www.personalcopy.com/home.htm : In the Linux section personal copy and unison are good. If you go to their normal soundfont page and from there go to the big soundfonts there is a lite version of personal copy also music theory 2 and RealFont 2.1 are good choices, you will need the sfark extraction utility to unpack the sfark and sfark.exe files for use: http://www.melodymachine.com/sfark.htm : Once you have your chosen soundfont extracted, put it in /usr/share/sounds/sf2, then edit /etc/timidity.cfg, just before the line that points to freepats.cfg put a line in that points to the soundfont: soundfont /usr/share/sounds/sf2/PCLite.sf2 order=0 : I'm using personal copy lite at the moment, but normally prefer the larger soundfonts, the order=0 tells timidity to look at the soundfont for instruments first, if it doesn't find an instrument in the soundfont it will look at the freepats instruments. If you want to use timidity in alsa sequencer mode uncomment the line in /etc/default/timidity that enables it, then open a terminal window and type: /etc/init.d/timidity start : this will create a timidity alsa device for midi applications to use, I believe you have to go into the options of each individual midi application and choose the timidity alsa device. If you want to convert the midi to audio look at the timidity man page for the output options, I think there are options for ogg, flac, and wav and maybe a couple others, no option for mp3. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
