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#1 2006-08-19 13:28:25
- Jacek Poplawski
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midi files on SB Live
If I remember correctly - to play midi files on SB Live one need package with sound banks, like awesfx. Is there such package in Arch? How do you play your midi files?
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#2 2006-08-19 16:58:20
- alikas
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Re: midi files on SB Live
Yuo can play MIDI files with timidity++.
Install timidity++ need write: "pacman -S timidity++" or "pacman -S timidity", do not remeber.
If yuo want play MIDI file with timidity++, type in terminal, I think, 'timidity filename'.
And need download sound fonts for timidity++.
Goodbye!
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#3 2006-08-19 20:42:06
- lanrat
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Re: midi files on SB Live
Timidity is a software player. MIDI works much better if you're using soundfonts and SBL hardware. I made a pkgbuild some time ago for my SBLive but I'm not using it anymore. It needs awesfx to load the library. You can find a pkbuild here or IIRC on the AUR. Don't forget to load all needed SB kernel modules. There are also a lot of different soundfont libs on the net.
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#4 2006-08-19 22:32:12
- Jacek Poplawski
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Re: midi files on SB Live
lanrat could you put your PKGBUILDs into AUR? I found just two other soundbanks, and no awesfx
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#5 2006-08-20 01:51:42
- pauldonnelly
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Re: midi files on SB Live
I though asfxload was the program for loading a soundfont.
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#6 2006-08-20 13:31:01
- lanrat
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Re: midi files on SB Live
lanrat could you put your PKGBUILDs into AUR? I found just two other soundbanks, and no awesfx
You mean awesfx on the AUR? It is already there.
Anyway, I don't want to maintain the PKGBUILDs that I'm not using anymore. Some time ago I've switched to laptop with standard AC97 and I can't test these soundfonts right now.
If you want to just play midi files don't use other soundfonts thant the first one in my PKGBUILD (from the alsa project site). It's the best one available for free and it pretty big 8MB comparing to 4MB of the soundfont lib from my SBL install cd. It worked well for me.
@pauldonnelly: asfxload is part of awesfx package.
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