On donderdag 31 mei 2012 17:02:54 Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > ???????? Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:56 +0300, Freek de Kruijf > > <f.de.kruijf at gmail.com>: > > In trunk docmessages/extragear-multimedia/kmid.pot message #196 reads: > > > > A typical &MIDI; file weights around 50 Kb. while the typical mp3 > > filesize > > is 4 Mb. And with a good synthesizer device, you can get a comparable > > sound > > quality. Even more, with a &MIDI; file, you can change individual > > instruments, change the velocity of a song, &etc; so you have more > > overall > > control. > > > > Kb should be KB and Mb should be MB > > Furthermore weights should be contains. > > Fixed. Thanks. > > However KMid is now unmaintained [1], so it is not clear when the update > will be released. > > [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-extra-gear&m=133046054208309&w=2
KMid uses either timidity or fluidsynth, if a soft synth is needed. Normally timidity has a very limited amount of instruments. Initializing fluidsynth in KMid, it has a pointer to a file /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 which is not present in my distribution. It is available on the Internet in a zip file, which does not contain any license, however I found a remark that it is available with a license something like LGPL. I don't know if fluidsynth and timidity are part of KDE. If so, I wonder if it is possible to include FluidR3_GM.sf2 also. In that case the configuration file of timidity should also contain a reference to this sf2 file. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf