Okay. It took a while, but right now i am listening to Time(Pink Floyd).mid in timidity with the "eawpats" patchset, and it sounds quite nice :D Here is what i did: 1. download the eawpats src.rpm (all other links was broken). Try to install it with rpm -ivh, find that it broke timidity (made it only spew a lot of garbage, f.ing up my terminal, and generally not do anything usefull). Reinstall timidity. 2. Open the source-rpm in fileroller. Find a .rar file inside it. Open that in file-roller. 3. Extract the rar. Encountered a bug in file-roller: if i opened a zip file (the src.rpm) in file-roller, and then opened another zip (the RAR archive inside), everything works out well. But if i then close the first window, and THEN try to unzip (unrar acctually) the rar, it simply does nothing. Absolutly nothing - think this might be some of the same case as this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132478 4. Try again, and extract the .rar into /usr/local/eawpats 5. Read "install.txt" carefully, and insert those lines at the end of /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg: #extra patches dir /usr/local/eawpats source gravis.cfg source gsdrums.cfg source gssfx.cfg source xgmap2.cfg 6. Play a midifile: [kyrre@kyrre MIDI]$ timidity -int Pink\ Floyd/Time.mid (the -int option gives a nice ncurces "gui" which shows some stats etc) Enjoy! I will now post a RFE to "distribution" on bugzilla. man, 13.09.2004 kl. 18.37 skrev Kyrre Ness Sjobak: > Yes, i have found it, and i am downloading the "eawpats" src.rpm right > now. (hmm... sound-font source-rpm?) I will (as soon as i have figured > out to do with a "source"-rpm... Any help, links etc? I feel ashamed not > knowing how to handle them!) test those patches asap, and will when i > have tested them contact ccrma for licensing information etc. > > And if all goes well, ill find some gui for it - i have found kmid, but > not tested it this far. Maybe find a GTK-based one as well, or persuade > a friend of mine into learning me GTK :P if i cant find one (maybe make > it python-based?). Then i will report back to bugzilla (which version? i > am currently running FC2) with a RFE. > > Does that seem good? First time i acctually do any real work to enchase > Fedora Core :D > > Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk > > 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. > > >
