I used the following steps for installing timidity in the first place (from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-276495.html):
"Install TiMidity (MIDI player/software synthesizer) (See also the Midi Software Synthesis How-To.) 1. Install Timidity: sudo apt-get install timidity timidity-interfaces-extra 2. (optional) Start software synthesis by loading the appropriate modules and starting Timidity as the MIDI server: sudo modprobe snd-seq-device sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi-event sudo modprobe snd-seq timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100 To make software synthesis start automatically in future, first make the appropriate modules load automatically: sudo gedit /etc/modules Append the following: snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq Then inform Timidity to start automatically: sudo gedit /etc/default/timidity Uncomment the line to enable the sequencer. That is, change: #TIM_ALSASEQ=true to: TIM_ALSASEQ=true 3. Add a desktop entry for Timidity: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/timidity.desktop Add: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Timidity MIDI Player Comment=Play MIDI audio files Exec=timidity -ig Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=false MimeType=audio/midi; Categories=Application;AudioVideo; Icon= #NoDisplay=true 4. (optional) Make Timidity the default MIDI player (after first having added a desktop entry as in the previous step): sudo cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list.backup.midi sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list Insert/replace the audio/midi entry as follows: audio/midi=timidity.desktop 5. (optional) Install high quality sound fonts: wget -c -O /tmp/timidity-patches-eaw http://www.fbriere.net/debian/dists/etch/misc/deb/timidity-patches-eaw_12-0fbriere.1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i /tmp/timidity-patches-eaw.deb sudo gedit /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg Change: source /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg to: source /usr/share/doc/timidity-patches-eaw/examples/timidity.cfg 6. (optional) Reduce Timidity's CPU usage: sudo gedit /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg Add: opt EFresamp=d #disable resampling (or "opt EFresamp=l" for linear resampling) opt EFvlpf=d #disable VLPF opt EFreverb=d #disable reverb opt EFchorus=d #disable chorus opt EFdelay=d #disable delay Save and close the file. Here is a script to do steps 1 - 5 for automatically: sudo apt-get install timidity timidity-interfaces-extra (printf '[Desktop Entry]\nEncoding=UTF-8\nName=Timidity MIDI Player\nComment=Play MIDI audio files\nExec=timidity -ig\nTerminal=false\nType=Application\nStartupNotif y=false\nMimeType=audio/midi;\nCategories=Application;AudioVideo;\n#Icon=? ??\n#NoDisplay=true\n') | sudo tee /usr/share/applications/timidity.desktop sudo cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list.backup.midi if ! cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list | grep "audio/midi"; then (printf 'audio/midi=timidity.desktop\n') | sudo tee -a /usr/share/applications/defaults.list; else sudo sed -i -e'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /usr/share/applications/defaults.list; fi; wget -c -O /tmp/timidity-patches-eaw http://www.fbriere.net/debian/dists/etch/misc/deb/timidity-patches-eaw_12-0fbriere.1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i /tmp/timidity-patches-eaw.deb sudo sed -i.backup -e'[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/timidity/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/timidity-patches-eaw/examples/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg sudo modprobe snd-seq-device sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi-event sudo modprobe snd-seq timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100 (printf 'snd-seq-device\nsnd-seq-midi\nsnd-seq-oss\nsnd-seq-midi-event\nsnd-seq\n') | sudo tee -a /etc/modules sudo sed -i -e'[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /etc/default/timidity -- package timidity-interfaces-extra 2.13.2-19ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235664 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
