From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jan 24 21:38:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14972 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wakko.efn.org (wakko.efn.org [198.68.17.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14967 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:38:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjb@efn.org) Received: from person.dyn.ml.org (cjb@dynip225.efn.org [204.214.97.225]) by wakko.efn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA19890; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:36:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:40:52 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brunner X-Sender: cjb@person.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: cjb@efn.org To: Jim Durham cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Playing Midi files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I can't claim to know very much, as I just discovered it myself, but > it has "pattern" files for all the instruments in /usr/local/lib/timidity/patch. > I assume these are samples of the instrument waveform. Yes, I think that's how it does it. Ever heard of a DOS program called Cubic Player? Does the same thing. > Only thing I can suggest is check IRQ's and DMA's carefully. ALso, make > sure you have all the special files by doing sh MAKEDEV snd0 in /dev. > Maybe something is hosed there? All the "0" devices should have a link > to the master device name, like dsp0 should link to dsp. You probably > have checked this stuff, but just in case... I don't think that's it. I can play other formats fine, like mod, wav, mp3, etc., it's just the midis that I have trouble with. > If all that fails, perhaps it's something incompatable in the 2.2.5 > sound driver. However, I used to do midi on 2.2.1 using "playmidi" and > had fairly good results...not as good as timidity. Really? You got playmidi to work? I was never able to do so satisfactorally. It sounded REALLY REALLY bad. Unlistenably so. Sounded like it was going to crash or something. Thanks a lot! Chris Brunner cjb@efn.org