In a message dated 8/31/03 10:17:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, guy.clotilde@wanadoo.fr writes:

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.
Wuen 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