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Re: kmidi problem?



On Monday 19 January 2004 17:38, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Montag, 19. Januar 2004 05:21 schrieb Doug du Boulay:
> > For the most part kmidi works pretty well for me, but for some midi files
> > the volume levels seem to fluctuate unnaturally. I am not sure if this is
> > a processor speed issue, but kmidi uses about 99% of cpu time and it is
> > otherwise a pretty light load.
> >
> > Recently I found a really bad offender:
> > http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/andersen/233/eurythmics/why.mid
> > where sound drops out altogeather.
>
> This play fine here although it consumes the CPU too much.
> Kmid with timidity alsa slave (I use a init-script for that) needs much
> less CPU cycles.

For me the distortion of the background synthesizer chordy bit (I know what 
I'm talking about, really I do :-) seems to overload it at about the :50, the 
2:20 and 4:00 minute marks, after which sound cuts out altogeather. Then 
about the 1:50 and 3:20 marks sound cuts back in again.  
But briefly, three times, it sounded pretty good :-) 
Its a mystery to me.

Can alsa and aRTS play nicely togeather, or does one replace the other (not 
sure I want to go that far. The Eurythmics aren't __that__ good).
Thanks
Doug




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