Re: MIDI && (PYTHON && WXGTK)

[Paul <paula4l@access4less.net>]

Paul wrote:
> 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

Sorry, I just re-read the suse manual and notice it says to use 
soundfont /usr/share/sounds/sf2/Vintage_Dreams_Waves_v2.sf2 in 
timidity.cfg.  I just tried this and it works fine.

paul