Timidity is a software (CPU wasting) synth that synths audio (say wav) from midi information. That audio information can be played by any Wav device so its sound level is controlled by pcm/wav controls.
Mainly, kmidi is a kde frontend to timidity. On the other side, kmid uses any of the available MIDI devices (ALSA/OSS) to play midi. Kmid can choose as output device: - the soundcard builtin synth, - timidity (when running with some options), - or the MIDI UART/USB output port as output device. Depending on the device you choose then you should consider the following: - MIDI output port will not sound if no HW midi device is connected. - Some builtin soundcards synths need loading some pathes in order to sound (sfxload...) - Builtin soundcards synths have their own channel on the mixer, unmute it. Hope this helps. On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:37, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Greetings all; > > Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer/comment on ones own messages, > but more info below. > > >I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting > >pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been > >replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, > >which I have. > > > >Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable exception > > of timidity. It goes thru the motions visually, but makes no > > sound, and when its closed, it leaves a copy of itself using about > > 75% of the cpu behind that can be found and killed. > > > >So whats the proceedure to make the midi synth work? > > > >I have no alsa installed other than whats in the kernel. The mixer > >that comes up is kmix, from kde-3.1.1a. It apparently has no > >sequencer or synth controls. > > I have since discovered that kmidi works, while kmid doesn't. > Kmidi is a cpu hog though, taking about 80% of a 1400 mhz athlon, and > skips a lot if other graphics are being drawn or copied. It also > seems to miss out on some voices its own sample .mid files call for. > > Do I have a basic miss-understanding of the rolls of these two > programs and timidity? > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M > 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
