How play midi with KMid?

alikas · 2006-09-01 09:59:30

KMid show that play MIDI file, but I nothing hear.

renners1 · 2006-09-01 10:35:22

I've just had same problem... resolved by installing timidity++. Also...

Some soundcards, including my SB Live, require a software sound library, called a soundfont. There are 3 in the AUR, I installed the smallest one, timidity-instruments, which works but isn't good quality sounds.
If you need better quality sounds, go for timidity-eawpatches or fluidr (these are quite big downloads).

Cheers, Renners

alikas · 2006-09-01 11:08:27

I use some soundfonts but, then playing some songs write, that not all instruments be hear. May yuo can give link to good soundfonts?
And I ask about KMid, because Konqueror to play music, in web pages, use KMid.

renners1 · 2006-09-01 13:18:19

I'm no expert, but I think the best soundfont in the AUR is the fluidr3 one.... just because its the biggest file so probably has better quality and/or more samples.
I don't know about kmid I'm afraid, I only played with midi because I wanted to get the music in openTTD working!

alikas · 2006-09-01 13:42:29

Thanks!

Snowman · 2006-09-02 01:13:11

I don't know about the fluidr3 soundfont but the soundfont-sgm180 package that I maintain in AUR is also quite complete. It's smaller than the fluidr3 one.

alikas · 2006-09-02 03:26:51

Thanks, but my yuo can give link to soundfont-sgm180? I found this: ftp://sf2midi.com/sgm128/SGM180v1.5.zip. But it not work.

Lone_Wolf · 2006-09-02 21:40:33

See the AUR for soundfont pkgbuilds :

soundfont-sgm180

fluidr3

alikas · 2006-09-03 09:39:42

'fluidr3' I remove, because it have for files and not any not have 'sf2' extension. There my '/etc/timidity++/timidity.cfg':

# details on this file and other examples see here:
# http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/dist/cfg/sndfont.cfg
# http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/dist/cfg/
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# SoundFont extension configuration
#
# soundfont <filename> [order={0|1}] [remove]
#    <filename> is the path of SoundFont file.
#    order: 0(preload) or 1(load after GUS).
#    remove: disable specified soundfont.
#
# font exclude <tonebank> [<preset> [<keynote>]]
# font order {0|1} <tonebank> [<preset> [<keynote>]]
#    <tonebank>: 0-127
#
# font exclude 128 [<drumset> [<key>]]
# font order {0|1} 128 [<drumset> [<key>]]
#----------------------------------------------------------------

# change the next line to point to a soundfont you have
# soundfonts can be found e.g. here: http://www.hammersound.net/
# soundfont /usr/share/soundfonts/DX7Piano.SF2
soundfont /home/al/Unison.sf2
#soundfont "/home/al/zip/fluid/FluidR3 GS.sfArk"
# you can do manipulations of the soundfont you load like this:
# e.g. removing drumset 99
# font exclude 128 99

# load drum samples after GUS patches
# font order 1 128

How see it requied .SF2 file.
Soundfont-sgm180 link have link to same link, who I has write.

Lone_Wolf · 2006-09-03 12:13:49

Alikas, i guess you haven't used AUR before ?

The files you download from aur are NOT binary packages like those in current & extra, instead they allow you to make the binaries on your own pc.
In short you download the files to your pc, run makepkg and pacman -A to install an aur program.

These are instructions to build the package for fluidr3 (chose that because i made it myself , so i know pretty well how it works ) :

pacman -S fakeroot

(needed to do the following things as normal user)

fluidr3 and sgm180 both use the AUR sfarkxtc program, so that has to be installed first.

Download the files for sfarkxtc
to a separate new dir in your home folder, like /home/your_user/aur/sfarkxtc .
open a terminal/console as user and go to the dir where you downloaded the files.
execute

makepkg

makepkg will download any necessary files and create a a package-file from them that can be used by pacman.
After it finishes, there will be a pkg.tar.gz file in the folder.

Do

su
pacman -A /home/your_user/aur/sfarkxtc/sfarkxtc-1.03-3.pkg.tar.gz
exit

to install it.

Now download the files for fluidr3 to /home/your_user/aur/fluidr3

open a terminal / console again , goto that folder and run

makepkg

Install it with :

su
pacman -A /home/your_user/aur/fluidr3/fluidr3-122501-2.pkg.tar.gz
exit

The sf2 file needed for timidity is now present in usr/share/soundfonts/fluidr3/ .
In order to let timidity use this font add this line to /etc/timidity++/timidity.cfg :

soundfont /usr/share/soundfonts/fluidr3/FluidR3GM.SF2

Hope this makes things clearer.

alikas · 2006-09-03 14:36:51

Thanks

alikas · 2006-09-03 14:37:37

Thanks.
How can I create .sfArk files?

Lone_Wolf · 2006-09-04 19:50:27

Unfortunatley that can only be done with a windows program.
On linux or Mac we can decompress sfark files but not make them.
visit http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm for details.

alikas · 2006-09-05 04:30:15

Thanks!

alikas · 2006-09-05 04:33:17

Thanks!
Maybe yuo know compresor, who good compresing Microsoft PCM .wav files?

Lone_Wolf · 2006-09-06 18:13:48

If you want to keep the high quality , this seems to be a reasonable choice :
FLAC

Wav Compression explained may also be useful.

alikas · 2006-09-07 04:30:25

No, I mean, compress .wav files, for example, like with Winrar.

Snowman · 2006-09-07 04:50:15

gzip and bzip2 are popular compression tools. bzip2 is better than gzip.
To compress:
$ bzip2 file.wav
To uncompress:
$ bunzip2 file.wav.bz2

You could also check out p7zip. I think it's better than gzip and bzip2.

alikas · 2006-09-07 10:41:17

Thanks. I know gzip, bzip2 and others, with KDE ark possible that do. Bu its compress .wav files about 80-90%. Did is that compressor, who compress .wav files about 50% or better?

sebcactus · 2006-09-07 12:23:43

Already given: FLAC...

From the FLAC website: "This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio"

alikas · 2006-09-07 15:31:59

But sound loss quality, then converting file from .wav to FLAC file?

Sigi · 2006-09-07 15:42:32

I don't know if I understand your question, but anyway:

If you want lossless compression, give flac a try.
If you want higher compression of your audio files and accept a little quality loss, try to compress it using the ogg (or some mp3) codec.

alikas · 2006-09-07 15:44:33

Thanks.
Maybe somebody can write source code how play FLAC file.

sebcactus · 2006-09-07 16:44:32

Sorry I am not sure if I understand what you want.

If you want to convert wav->flac:

pacman -S flac

then

flac -8 inputfile.wav -o output.flac

If you want to convert flac->wav:

flac -d inputfile.flac -o output.wav

If you want to play your flac file, use any audio player. You may have to install the flac plugin for your audio player.
E.g. if it is based on gstreamer0.10:

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-flac

alikas · 2006-09-07 16:55:32

Thanks!

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