Timidity
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TiMidity is a MIDI to WAVE converter and player that uses SoundFonts and Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files to generate digital audio data from general MIDI files. It usually comes packaged with modern linux distros but also requires a 10Mb plus set of patch files or SoundFonts to be usable.
Contents
- 1 Links
- 2 Get CVS version
- 3 Some history
- 4 How to use TiMidity with MusE
- 5 How to use Timidity with Noteedit
Links
- http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
- Main development site
- http://wiki.debian.net/?Timidity In Debian with Graphics interface.
- http://timidity.s11.xrea.com/index.en.html
- Windows binaries
- Bugtraker to report problems
- TiMidityConfig - more information about the config file
- FreePats - a project to develop an open set of GUS patches
- The EawPats which were at http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/html/default.htm are gone and have been replaced with the FreePats above.
Get CVS version
cvs -d \
:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/timidity \
login (just press return)
cvs -d \
:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/timidity \
co timidity
Some history
The original version of this program was written by Tuuka Tiovonen \ until TiMidity 0.2i (he discontinued development because
he was too busy with work). Masanao Izumo \
Toivonen's original TiMidity is also the basis for the midi player Kmidi, the midi player plugin of Alsaplayer, gt (see GusSoundfont), and the midi player of SDL/SDL_mixer, a popular games programming library. (The CVS version of the last has Alsa surround sound support.)
How to use TiMidity with MusE
This information is courtesy of BillAllen \
timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0 2>&1 &
Then run MusE and in Config/Midi Ports, it has a list of channels and the output device associated with that channel. You should see TiMidity as one of the choices. Choose that for, say, channel 1. Then, in the Track dialog, you've got to specify the output device for each track. This is a pain if you're only using one device for all tracks (maybe there's a way to specify that, but I don't know it), but in general it is good because you can specify, say, timidity for the drum, and piano tracks, then one or more soft synths for other tracks. Be sure to run MusE as root or suid with priority at 98 as in "muse -RP98".
How to use Timidity with Noteedit
This is almost the same as Muse above. To configure Noteedit to use the Timidity thingie go to the menu bar, Settings, Configure Noteedit, Sound, and click on one of the Timidity ones, and hit okay. It should work now.
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