Re: Any way to play midi files?

2001-08-15 Thread Joel Mayes 
 Anthony == Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Anthony Is there any way to play midi files on Linux?

Have a look at the timidity  timidity-patches packages,

-- 
Joel

Any way to play midi files?

2001-08-13 Thread Anthony Campbell 
Is there any way to play midi files on Linux?

Anthony
-- 
Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone).
For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical 
essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/

Disasters do happen in life, but the disasters that happen are never those
that you were worried about.   [my father]

Re: Any way to play midi files?

2001-08-13 Thread Eduard Bloch 
#include hallo.h
Anthony Campbell wrote on Mon Aug 13, 2001 um 08:50:32AM:
 Is there any way to play midi files on Linux?

~# apt-cache search MIDI | grep -i play\|seq
awe-midi - Linux AWE32 driver MIDI player
awe-netscape-libc5 - Linux AWE32 MIDI player Netscape plugin
awe-netscape-libc6 - Linux AWE32 MIDI player Netscape plugin
(libc6/glibc2.0)
brahms - Graphical music editor and MIDI sequencer
kmid - midi/karaoke player for KDE
kmidi - midi-to-wav player/converter for KDE
playmidi - MIDI player
pmidi - a command line midi player for ALSA
rosegarden - An integrated MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor.
sted2 - a fast, functional MIDI sequencer
timidity - Software-only MIDI sequencer.
timidity-el - An Emacs front end to the timidity software-only MIDI
sequencer.
timidity-patches - Instrument files for software-only MIDI sequencer.
tk707 - TK-707 Drum Sequencer for sound card or MIDI device
tse3play - MIDI/TSE3MDL player/converter (tse3play)

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
-- 
Diagnose? Erklärungen? Reproduzierbare Lösungen? Sowas wollen nur
Leute, die von EDV nichts verstehen.

Re: Any way to play midi files?

2001-08-13 Thread David Z. Maze 
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AC Is there any way to play midi files on Linux?

I tend to use timidity for software-only MIDI playback, but it's
computationally intensive and has huge patch files.  (The results do
sound pretty good, though.)  If you have an external MIDI device and
have everything else configured properly, something like playmidi
might do the job for you too.

-- 
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal.
-- Abra Mitchell