thanks for the reply.
would be interested in some nice sound fonts, in the past i have had problems with there key mapping and thus been unusable. but if there is a movement towards there usage, i would be interested. i get most crashes with ardour but i don't think that is the cause of timidity's instability.

2.6.23-rt1 #5 PREEMPT RT Tue Dec 11 14:13:00 EST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

timidity++-2.13.2-r5
jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.2
ardour 2.4
gentoo with pro-audio overlay.

regards.




On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Julien Claassen <julien@c-lab.de> wrote:
Hi!
 Fluidsynth 1.0.8 is stable. Josh applied a lot of patches and fixes, as I seem to remember. All you need is soundfonts. But with full midiplayback I always noticed, that fluidsynth uses more CPU.
 Which version of timidity are you running? I'm running 2.13.2 for a long time now and it is stable. I use JACK only.
 If you want to rely on gigasamples you can also use LinuxSampler and its graphical frontend jsampler or qsampler. But there aren't as many free gagisamples as there are soundfonts.
 regarding timidity: Tell me which version of timidity, which distro you're running and your jack-version, please. Maybe it helps. For timidity shouldn't crash.
 Kindest regards
      Julien

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