Re: Firefox and MIDI
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Jim
Nicos Gollan wrote:
On Saturday May 14 2005 05:02, Jim Hall wrote:
A user needs MIDI to work in Firefox. I installed
kernel-image-2.6.8-686, then ALSA. Ran alsaconf. Everything seemed fine,
but no MIDI in Firefox. Can't find a plugin. Is there any way to make
Firefox recognize and use ALSA?
Can you play MIDI files with pmidi? You'll have to do some setup work before
you hear any sound unless you have a hardware synth attached to the
soundcard.
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How would I know if there is a "synth" attached to the soundcard?
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This did help me to get MIDI working:
http://houghi.org/user/ch19s09.html
The article seems to change locations every now and then, I've had at least
three locations go invalid over time. Searching for "ALSA and MIDI" on Google
usually does the trick, the page title should be "19.9. ALSA and MIDI".
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Thank you for the reference. I've read it. However, it refers to KDE.
This system is using the Debian default, Gnome. Since I have no idea
what the Gnome equivalents are, it doesn't help me much. :)
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If you're interested in better MIDI quality than most consumer soundcards can
handle, I recommend you have a loot at timidity which can also be used as a
synth for ALSA:
http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
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I've looked up timidity in the package lists. Other info I've found
seems to indicate it's resource heavy. So, it would be a last resort.
Frankly, as long as the sound is halfway reasonable (meaning it doesn't
grate on the senses), I don't care about quality.
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Sets of MIDI patches can be found all over the net. I use the Titanic
Soundfont, but that's too big for most cards and needs quite some CPU power.
There are smaller ones that can be loaded with sfxload, but don't expect too
much (Creative usually ship an 8MB Soundfont on their driver discs).
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I have no idea what you're talking about here.
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