On ג', 2005-11-08 at 14:49 +0200, David Harel wrote: > 1. Just for the sake of understanding, If I do: > % cat mymusic.wav > /dev/dsp > I should here the music right? cos it doesn't work.
It's not that trivial. /dev/dsp cannot just accept a WAVE file as-is. You need to first set it up with some ioctl calls and then write only the sound chunks of the WAVE file. That's what players do. > 2. After I installed so many audio tools and still can't find my arms > and legs in the mess, can you direct me to a command that does the > synthesizing? for what I care, to a file will be fine. But now that > I think of it, It should operate my sound card just as amarok does. Timidity should be all you need. You can use it to: 1. Play a MIDI file directly (it'll read the .MID file, synthesize the music and play it to your /dev/dsp -- your /dev/sequencer won't be involved at all) 2. Provide your /dev/sequencer-less PC with a /dev/sequencer device. Try the first approach first. Only if you want to use other programs (such as KMid) to play MIDIs you will need the second approach. > 3. I understand I should also get a file that synthesizes different > musical instruments. Can you explain about that as well? Modern packages (RPMs, DEBs) of Timidity should come with pre-recorded (known as "wavetable synthesis") samples of all the General MIDI standard musical instruments. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
