On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:59:45PM -0700, 4625 wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:55PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > > > > > I think your problem can be traced to the different default > > > > > > > > voices. > > > > > > > I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the > > > > > > > same config, like I have one in FreeBSD, on the same PC. > > > > > > > > > > > > I wonder if FreeBSD's patch-playmidi would make any difference. > > > > > It is not port or patch problem, but perfomance (on my opinion). > > > > > > > > > > > > maybe you don't. but for me, multichannel audio is more important > > > > > > for a desktop than some busted old software midi player. > > > > > > It would be nice to hope that there is exist good substitute for timidity, > > > which able to produce sound with the same quality. > > > > did you try that timidity patch from freebsd I refered you to? > Sure. > > > > > > > > But I'm sure, I should boot > > > > > > > FreeBSD-4.11 to listen midi files. > > > > > > > > > > > > or you could use a less ancient midi player. > > > > > Could you advice me one? > > > > > > > > I like fluidsynth. > > > Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it? > > > > the way the manual says to. > What make you think that I did not saw the manual? >
IMHO this discussion is taking the wrong direction. I use MIDI a lot, exclusively on OpenBSD; both for playback, recording, editting and basic real-time "filtering". Feel free to ask for hints and to explain what you try to do with MIDI and -- most importantly -- with what MIDI hardware. Either privately or on the list, if you feel there's something others should know. To quickly summarize where OpenBSD is: - harware synths, keyboards, control surfaces etc... just work, and are fully usable for real-time stuff since few years. After all MIDI is a dumb serial port. - opl(4), pcppi(4) are almost useless and seem unmaintained, I have plans to work on them (or anything based on src/sys/dev/midisyn.h). - ports/audio/fluidsynth is almost usable as a real-time synth. There's a recent patch on ports@, making it look as hardware to MIDI players. It works, but is not as good as hardware synths, especially for real-time performance. I use hardware most of the time. - ports/audio/timidity: it's good for MIDI rendering. I'd love your issues to get solved, but I have much more urgent/fun things to work on. I use it sometimes to render .wav files. - midiplay(1) is in base. It works only with hardware, because it uses the (obsolete) sequencer(4) interface; this is being worked on, though. - ports/audio/midish works in all cases and does much more than midiplay(4), that's the tool i'm working on the most. HTH -- Alexandre
