From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jan 24 01:48:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25049 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25044 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: (from durham@localhost) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11019; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:19:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:19:56 -0500 (EST) Organization: Dis- From: Jim Durham To: Chris Brunner Subject: RE: Playing Midi files Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23-Jan-98 Chris Brunner wrote: > I have been trying to get midis to play well in FreeBSD since I got it, > but I've had no luck. I set up the VOXWARE stuff all fine and dandy, but > midis just sound really, really bad, if they play at all. Sometimes, > there is no playback at all, sometimes I get a core dump. When I say they > sound really bad, I mean the notes are the wrong instraments or not > played, and sound off-tone. > I have a SB32 PnP configured with Luigi's PnP driver running on FreeBSD > 2.2.5. The card has 2MB of onboard memory for loading soundfonts. Have you tried the timidity port? I'm pretty impressed with it. It translates midi to wave, pcm, or raw and also plays it directly using /dev/dsp. It sounds much better than the other midi players with which I had been playing. One nice feature is that you can then use the real audio encoder to encode the file produced by timidity, if you choose raw or wave output. regards, Jim Durham Jim Durham