Hi Lorenzo and many thanks for this. Just a question, does this softsynth feature any reverb? Or will I hear the playback without any reverb? And at last, I just open the midifile from within Gnome or from a console? All the best, Christian On 2008-02-25 at 00:50 Lorenzo Taylor wrote: >Timidity++ is about the best software midi synthesizer for Linux. It is >usually known to your package manager as timidity. Also, Ubuntu just got >the Fluid release 3 soundfonts which will work with timidity. If your >distro is Debian based, even if it isn't Ubuntu Hardy alpha, you can >download the debs from >http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/fluid-soundfont/fluid-soundfont-gm_3-0ubuntu1_all.deb >and >http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/fluid-soundfont/fluid-soundfont-gs_3-0ubuntu1_all.deb > >You should just be able to wget those links if you use a command shell >on a regular basis. These debs are almost certain to work on any >Debian-based distro. > >If you have an rpm-based distro such as Fedora, the Fluid soundfonts >may not be included, but you may alien the debs mentioned above. >Aliening the debs should almost certainly work, since there is most >likely no major difference in the filesystem hierarchy that would pose a >problem for these packages. > >To setup timidity to work with the fluid soundfonts, just add the >following 2 lines to the bottom of your /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg > >soundfont /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 >soundfont /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2 > >Also, you will probably want to comment out any line that mentions >freepats, since this patchset is incomplete and doesn't sound as good as >the fluid soundfonts. The line will look something like > >source /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg > >Hope this helps, >Lorenzo >-- >Make a change. Make a difference. >Obama for America: our time has come! >http://www.barackobama.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list