Thanks for your patience,
Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
On ג', 2005-11-08 at 14:49 +0200, David Harel wrote:
2. After I installed so many audio tools and still can't find my arms
and legs in the mess, can you direct me to a command that does the
synthesizing? for what I care, to a file will be fine. But now that
I think of it, It should operate my sound card just as amarok does.
Timidity should be all you need. You can use it to:
1. Play a MIDI file directly (it'll read the .MID file, synthesize the
music and play it to your /dev/dsp -- your /dev/sequencer won't be
involved at all)
2. Provide your /dev/sequencer-less PC with a /dev/sequencer device.
Try the first approach first. Only if you want to use other programs
(such as KMid) to play MIDIs you will need the second approach.
I have installed both timidity and ALSA. ALSA is installed as a set of
libraries since I have to use kernel 2.4. I can use OSS on kernel level.
Still I failed to use kmid. Got error on /dev/sequencer and I don't
understand how to use timidity to play midi files.
When I tried ALSA using aplaymidi I got an error with /dev/dsp/seq (no
such file). I guess I didn't understand how to configure those tools.
Do you think you can direct me to a document that explains how to set
those tools in order to play midi files? (I read so many of them I was
overwhelmed by the amount of, mostly irrelevant information in my case'
so I think I need more directions). Maybe I have to recompile things? (
I use Gentoo packages ).
3. I understand I should also get a file that synthesizes different
musical instruments. Can you explain about that as well?
Modern packages (RPMs, DEBs) of Timidity should come with pre-recorded
(known as "wavetable synthesis") samples of all the General MIDI
standard musical instruments.
Can you give me a name of such a file so that I will search for it?
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Thanks.
David Harel,
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