On 08/18/2013 02:39 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote:
It is basically the same for audacious. It comes with the amidi plugin where
you can choose either to use alsa as backend (for soundchips with hardware
synthesizers) or the fluidsynth backend for fluidsynth stuff. You only need to
set the correct path to the soundfont you want to use. (i.e. FluidR3_GM)
For those who don't want such a big soundfont you can also get the very small
but very good (for its size) soundfont TimGM6mb.sf2 from here:
http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/Timidity.htm
Leszek:
Thanks for the additional info. I looked a little harder at audacious,
and with your information, was able to configure it properly so it plays
MIDI files too.
At first I thought there was a problem, because it would hang whenever I
tried to play one, but then I noticed I have set up my audacious player
to use JACK, which was not running at the time. After bringing up
qjackctl, it worked fine.
The TimGM6mb.sf2 is a good soundfont as well. I particularly like it
for its oboe, flute, and trumpet sounds. The trumpet sound is very
good, which is rare in the soundfonts I have used (including
FluidR3_GM). But its French Horn sound is out-of-tune (to my ear) on
the notes between middle-C and the G above middle-C.
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Sincerely,
Aere
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