2 Sep
2003
2 Sep
'03
3:20 a.m.
The raw device is for externa synth, I believe.
As far as a sequencer goes, it's far better to use a >softsynth than the legacy
card synth. With a softsynth, you >will have far better sounds, see for example
timidity and the >eawpats sound with your distro.
When timidity is installed and launched (timidity -iA) you >will find it in this MusE
box.
I wanted to use the wavetable synth, even if it was of lower sound quality, as a tool to
listen to work in progress so as to reduce the load on the processor. I have been having
some problems with crackling noises which I assume are caused by MusE and or the softsynth
overloading the processor when playing back a multitrack midi file.
Today I did some experimenting with TiMidity as the softsynth for MusE -- I got it
configured with timidity -iA in one terminal and muse -R in another. Then in the midiport
configuration it popped up with timidity port 0 for the first midi port. Unfortunately
this produced no sounds on testing. I opened the track info number and tried to select a
preset, but all that it had was "???" -- no patches to select from.
Is there another switch that needs to be thrown to load sounds into TiMidity? Something
else?
I am running the Planet CCRMA acpi kernel, RH 8.0, with TiMidity++ 2.11.3-4.1, TiMidity
midia instruments 2.11.3-4.1, and eawpats 12-1 installed.
Thanks,
Barton