Differences between current version and previous revision of SoundNotes.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Friday, September 26, 2008 10:00:43 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, June 10, 2006 4:55:55 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
@@ -1,36 +1 @@
-!!! Software playback of [MIDI] files
-
-[TiMidity++ | http://timidity
.sourceforge.net/] is a software synthesizer that reads [MIDI] files and computes regular sample data that can be played back with any soundcard just like an [MP3] or [Ogg]. Most distributions include it as a [Package] called <tt>timidity</tt>.
-
-
-!!! Playing [MIDI] files on a SBLive! sound card
-
-To play [MIDI] files, load "sound fonts" into the sound card's memory, and then use those to play [MIDI] files. Sound fonts are collections of samples for the [MIDI] sequencer wave table; the [CDROM] that came with your soundcard has some.
-
-Your [ALSA] drivers must have been built with the <tt>--with-sequencer=yes</tt> configure option, and you need the [sfxload| http://mitglied.lycos.de/iwai/] program. It is designed for the SB AWE32 and AEW64, but works with SBLive cards too. (In [Debian] it’s available as the <tt>awesfx</tt> [Package].)
-
-You can load a sound font by issuing something like <tt>sfxload 8mbgmsfx.sf2</tt>. You can check that it is loaded into the soundcard's memory by doing <tt>cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1</tt>:''''
-
- <verbatim>
- Device: Emu10k1
- Ports: 4
- Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3
- Use Counter:
- Max Voices: 64
- Allocated Voices:
- Memory Size: 134217728
- Memory Available: 126786844
- Allocated Blocks: 527
- SoundFonts: 1
- Instruments: 1849
- Samples: 526
- Locked Instruments: 1849
- Locked Samples: 526
- </verbatim>
-
-Then play a file using the <tt>playmidi</tt> program using the <tt>-a</tt> option to tell it to be AWE-compatible: <tt>playmidi -a dukenukem.mid</tt>
-
-Make sure the volume for the sequencer isn't muted; in <tt>alsamixer</tt>, you are looking for the slider named "Music".
-
-----
-Part of CategoryNotes
+See AudioNotes
.
