søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 16.57 skrev Janina Sajka: > 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. > Okay. Problem is: - I am not a professional musician, only some guy who wondered why i couldn't just play my midi-files - Wish i could do that. only problem is that my knowledge of C is inferior. MIDI also. But if CCRMA also has a repo, it should be possible to just install the necessary RPMS, right? Thanks for the hint.
