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!!! 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 [<tt>
sfxload</tt>
| 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].)
+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 cna 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>:
+You cna 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
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Locked Instruments: 1849
Locked Samples: 526
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-Use
the <tt>playmidi</tt> program using the <tt>-a</tt> option to tell it to be AWE-compatible.
+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".
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