Re: MIDI questions
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:02:59 +0100 Peter J Ross wrote:
> I sympathise deeply, having had endless troubles with MIDI myself.
>
> As far as I can tell, your problem is that you need to be running
> something like TiMidity++ as a midi server for ALSA.
>
> This command works for me when run as root:
>
> [~]# timidity --realtime-priority=40 -iA -B10,10 -Os
>
> I find that's adequate to make KMid, Rosegarden and NoteEdit work
> reasonably well. (of course you have to have TiMidity++ installed.)
>
> Higher settings for realtime priority have caused all kinds of trouble
> for me, but it may depend on how much memory you have (I have only
> 128MB).
> TiMidity++ will also convert your .mid files to .wav or .ogg. The man
> page gives details of the necessary command line options.
Thanks! TiMidity++ was the answer. It will play the files, I don't
even need playmidi for that, and it converts directly to 44.1K, stero
wav files that I can burn directly to CD without any other conversion
necessary. That was exactly what I needed.
Marc
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