On Monday 15 July 2002 8:07 pm, kagus ting wrote: > Well I hope i can hack and make Timidity work
Wish I could help, but my distro is different. I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on KDE 3.0.1 Texstar RPMs. I can run KMidi and Timidity side by side while in KDE. I am also using aRTs sound server so I can combine several sound-generating modules and output them all to my sound card. At least you can use KMidi, and that is all you need if you just want to play plain MIDI files. Playing some MIDI files sounds funny with KMidi. For instance, I'm playing Oasis' Champagne Supernova now while writing this. The guitar pitch-bends sounds way off-key and several semitones astray. Even persons who don't have perfect pitch will hear the quirky sound. In Windows, playback of pitch bends is correct, and have nice logarithmic increments. KMidi is still in its early stages. It's not yet optimized, and the software developer honestly admits this. Thus even if I have a Pentium 733 and running KMidi, doing things in the background will stutter the sound, or cause it to do an audio "hiccup", to think that MIDI playback is very light on the processor and consumes so little memory. It's different when I'm in Windows. Direct hardware control of MIDI mapper really speeds things up. MIDI playback is very tight, and running MIDI sequencing programs is impeccable. Sigh. I have to wait for several years before software sequencers get ported to Linux. mikol _ 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]
