Noong: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:26:13 +0800 Michael Peligro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kanyang minutawi:
+>|On Sunday 14 July 2002 6:55 pm, kagus ting wrote: +>| + +>|KMidi is a graphical front-end to Timidity's frequency modulated (FM) +>|synthesis engine. The synthesizer technology is comparable to Yamaha DX7 +>|synthesizer, an instrument very popular back in the 80s. Whenever you hear +>|the theme instrumental track to "Beverly Hills Cop" or the lead keyboard in +>|Van Halen's "Jump", the keyboard in Psychedelic Fur's "The Ghost in You", or +>|any happy 80's new wave track, that's how frequency-modulated synthesis +>|sounds. Unfortunately for some reason i cant make timidity work though its one of my default install, so got no choice but use KMidi instead. Im not a musician but i used to collect tons of midis before mp3 becomes popular and its my favorite downloads during the BBS days of early 90s. Yamaha DX7 is pretty 80's just watch any Duran-Duran mtvs and you seldom cant see that synth. +>| +>|Timidity uses a single tone generator and other necessary oscillators (virtual +>|mathematical algorithmic oscillators, in a software sense, as opposed to +>|hardware electronic synthesis circuits found in commercial keyboard +>|synthesizers). The two envelope generators can shape up sine waves with basic +>|ADSRs (attack, decay, sustain, and release) algorithms. Really basic but +>|functional. +>| +>|The effects units are nice. Reverb, chorus, detuning, phaser effects. Very +>|nice. The detuning effect makes it possible to do finger-style string pitch +>|bends with an electric guitar patch. I wish it has a distortion effects +>|algorithm to go nicely with it. +>| +>|Reading through the manual, I discovered that it can use Soundfonts. So +>|Timidity is also a sample-playback synthesizer after all, and not just an +>|ordinary MIDI player! And an upgradable synthesizer too! I'm looking forward +>|to loading the AWE and AWE32 Sound fonts. Linux i believe has support for sound blaster awe sound card. If you have it, maybe you try and probably timidity will work with that. Its just a wild guess but maybe other knows how to. +>| +>|I'd go over the suggested ftp sites to download these sound presets later this +>|evening. I'm excited that this will improve the sound quality a lot. +>| +>|The downside of timidity: no graphical waveform-editing utility. I would love +>|to tweak those tone, envelope and effects generators, much like what I did +>|when I still have my old Commodore 64 computer around. Perhaps someday. Well I hope i can hack and make Timidity works, its already a nice alternative to Roland Sound Module which has a hardware and software modules. I remember using a Roland software before with an 8-bit sound card and you can hardly hear any diffrence with its hardware counterpart. My interest to midi waned when mp3 became popular. However i would love to have it in linux, its a good apps that its very useful and synthesizer technology is of one machintosh great features. Just imagine the influx of musicians to linux once this synth apps can be ported to it! Maybe the kernel can be customized for this feature too. If only Fat Boy Slim can hack linux kernel..... +>| +>|> Can you share your mixes? +>| +>|I'd love to, but the remixes are inside my broken 4 gig Seagate hard drive. Do +>|you know of any company doing hard drive recovery? Only the drive's +>|electronic circuit board was detached. One could still recover data on the +>|platters. Ouch! that would be great, it may be off-topic here in our list but maybe some guys can share their experiance in data recovery. I presumed its in winbloze also. +>| +>|> I have a friend who like you is into Cakewalk and he's using old +>|> MacNotebook (forgot the model) but something he bought for P 5000.00 at +>|> hmr, as his midi player. he is also uses 386 box with win3.1 for his midi +>|> player for a church choir. well maybe something as minimal as that can be +>|> ported with linux. +>| +>|Glad to hear about your friend. He's lucky finding that old MacNotebook for P +>|5t. +>| +>|I presume he's using Cakewalk on Win 3.1. Windows 3.1 has excellent support +>|for MIDI. As long as he doesn't use it to do digital audio recording, he'd be +>|out of trouble. +>| +>|Can I contact him sometime? What sound card is he using? I'm interested in +>|knowing how he manages to synchronize MIDI music with the live choir. Ill email his contact to you privately and i thnik you will have nice interactions. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
