Re: MIDI && (PYTHON && WXGTK)

[Paul <paula4l@access4less.net>]

Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Friday February 4 2005 22:36, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote:
>
> > People,
> > 1)Has someone got to play MIDI files through linux? [DEBIAN ] ?
>
>
> http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/suse/userguide/ch19s09.html
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=timidity&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
> http://www.titanicsf.com/download/download.html
>
> The Titanic Soundfont needs to be unpacked with the SFPack utility, which 
> should run in WINE. The Soundfonts from Soundblaster driver packages work 
> quite well (but sound awful), there's also a package timidity-patches 
> somewhere on the net.
>
> Getting it to run is not really rocket science after you manage to hunt down a 
> samples package.

The suse manual recommends soundfonts for timidity, but he link to 
http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/html/default.htm seems dead (last 
web page date is 1998).  The 110 MB Titanic is a sf2 file, isn't it?  Is 
it possible to use *.sf2 files with timidity?  I've been googling 
unsuccessfully for a way to convert.  The only thing I've found is a 
suse tool (also debian pkg awesfx) but it's just for the Emu10k1 
soundcard, which I don't have, so does not work on my pc.

paul