20 Jan
2003
20 Jan
'03
5:50 a.m.
Hello to all,
I´m searching for some kind of a HALion replacement on Linux. Just a
simple engine that responses to MIDI Note on/off and Main Volume per
channel, and that can be triggered using some sequencer (as MUSE or
Rosegarden).
Any hint would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Florian Berger, Leipzig, Germany
The two main choices that I'm aware of are:
* iiwusynth (http://www.hanappe.org/iiwusynth.html)
a soundfont-enabled sampler that is already included in MusE (click on
config-->Soft Synhtesizer, add an istance; click on Config-->Midi
ports, select the iiwu port and then click on "GUI": this brings up a
window in which you can choose a soundfont)
* timidity (http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/),
that can be started in ALSA server mode (of course you must have ALSA
drivers, not OSS) like this: `timidity -iA -B2,8`.
You can load soundfonts by specifying them in the timidity.cfg
file (on my system is /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg) simply adding
the line
soundfont /path/to_my/soundfont.sf2
and comment out anything else.
You can find a huge amount of soundfonts on www.hammersound.net or you
can create your own with swami (http://swami.sourceforge.net/)
HTH
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