Kyrre Ness Sjobak writes: > søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 01.11 skrev Janina Sajka: > > Kyrre Ness Sjobak writes: > > > Hmm... Does anybody know why Fedora haven't included a simple > > > midi-player, which simply sends things to your soundcard for rendering, > > > which in turn plays it?? And does anybody know about a good such > > > program? > > > > > Huh? Did timidity++ disappear? Or, am I misunderstanding your question? > > ... ... > > Hmm... what if i (as many others) are so lucky to have a HW-based > midi-playing soundcard (such as the AWE 64)? Methinks maybe they wants > to use it... > Are you aware of Planet CCRMA which is an entire distribution for musicians based on Fedora? http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ I mention CCRMA because it's Fedora and rpm based and aimed at professional musicians. However, I would also agree that support for driving MIDI instruments directly is weak on Linux. So, I heartily second Jeff's suggestion to get involved adding MIDI support to gstreamer--if that's something you're able to contribute. > Could it be possible to do something like MS does - in the gstreamer > setup, give an option to either use timidity (with a full patchset - the > patches included don't even rival my old SB16, The CCRMA repository does have timidity with a better set of instruments, fortunately.
