On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:58:35 -0500
Charles Philip Chan
If you want to play back midi's thru the soundcard, you need to setup timidity, in server mode, to simulate an midi sequencer and play it as a wave thru your sound card. ( Or get yourself a nice midi keyboard :-) )
No you don't have to do that if there is an internal synth on you soundcard. All you have to do is to load some soundfonts.
Hmm, it don't work for me with my sblive. I need timidity to play midi files. What do you use without timidity? Is there a /dev/midi or /dev/sequencer? I've tried to use Noteedit, and I choose every possible output option in the setup, and would not get any midi out of the soundcard. When I setup the timidity server, and selected it as the output, it works fine. Does the ARTS server under KDE do that for you? I thought I read somewhere that ARTS is based on the timidity libraries? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation