21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
2:32 p.m.
Just for comparison, I'm running timidity without problems on an old
Pentium 3 at 350 Mhz with only 192 Mb of RAM.
You might need to give up on playmidi and use aplaymidi which is native
alsa for driving hw synths, though I haven't spent much time on this.
Still, timidity is running smoothly with my SB Live 1 card. I'm using
the timidity-eawpats-12-1 from CCRMA for my sound fonts.
Laura Conrad writes:
Timidity is practically unusable with Alsa on my box. In other ways
it's only slightly creaky (it's a 3-4 year old AMD 755 box). But
there are too many dropouts when I play a multichannel MIDI file for
me to use it to proofread my publishing. (Under OSS timidity was
fine, but regular readers may remember, my OSS broke when I upgraded
to kernel 2.4.26, and I could only get help fixing ALSA, so I'm
running ALSA).
So I'm trying to set up the hardware MIDI on the SBLive. I'm
following the directions at
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html> and things look
normal. When I run "playmidi -a score.midi", it looks like it's
playing, but there isn't any sound. (Yes, the speaker is plugged into
the right place.) I've looked at the mixer settings
and don't see anything obvious to change.
So can anyone give me any advice either about how to get the hardware
synth to work or how to get Timidity to work better? One part of my
score is a quarter note longer than the others, and I need to find out
where this happens.
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Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
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Accessibility Workgroup
Free Standards Group (FSG)
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