On Thursday 03 October 2002 14:25, Danny Tholen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 03 October 2002 18:14, Clive Dove wrote: > > I was about to rip out alsa and kdemultimedia and install the ossfree > > module and timidity++ and instruments. > > Well, you might prefer ossfree because of other reasons, but ALSA supports > the most stuff (although it can be a bit difficult to get it configured > correctly). > > I think you should add this to your modules.conf, tell me whether it works > (tested with kmid and playmidi -a sample.mid): #midi stuff: > #You can really use any *.sf2 file here. There should be one on your > soundcard #driver CD. sfxload is in the awesfx RPM. > > alias snd-synth-midi snd-seq-midi > post-install snd-seq-oss /bin/sfxload /etc/soundfonts/chaos12m.sf2 > > Danny > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9nIugaeiN+EU2vEIRAt4WAKCBM6LLn/JhK6Hfna6jHrKVcEbHeACfQ3T6 > pXQMK6OGXl4Qx8ETepUUg14= > =uH4V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thank you. The two lines were added to /etc/modules.conf and I played some music from midi sites. There was no .sf2 file when I first tried but midi still came up. I tried a few .sf2 files including Unison.sf2 and PC 51f.sf2 which I downloaded and a few others from my Soundblaster CDROM disk. In each case, I placed the file into /etc/soundfonts/ and then amended the second argument in your sample "post-install" line to point to the file. All sounded tinny compared to the quality that I had gotten using Timidity++ with OSSFree in mdk 8.1. There was a difference betsween the files but it was slight. The best of them seemed to be missing brass and drones and the ordinary run were worse and sounded like a honky-tonk piano. I could hear breaks where there were missing voices. I could not find a file "chaos12m.sf2" or "chaos8m.sf2" although Google searches brought up several references to them. There is this file on my system: /usr/share/apps/kmidi/config/chaos-voices This file contains a long list of voices. Is there some manner in which this file is used to invoke the voices? Thank you for your help. With it I am making progress.
