Hi Laura: I'm using TiMidity on an 800 MHz AMD box with an SBLive Value. Usually I'm running Planet CCRMA's Red Hat 9, but sometimes I run the AGNULA distro instead. Both supply a low-latency kernel: are you using a low-latency system or a standard unpatched kernel ? If you want to send me the score in question I'll check it on my box. I've played a lot of dense MIDI files, they work fine. Also, what does your ~/timidity.cfg look like ? If you don't have one in your home directory you might find it in your /etc directory. Best regards, dp Laura Conrad wrote: >Timidity is practically unusable with Alsa on my box. In other ways >it's only slightly creaky (it's a 3-4 year old AMD 755 box). But >there are too many dropouts when I play a multichannel MIDI file for >me to use it to proofread my publishing. (Under OSS timidity was >fine, but regular readers may remember, my OSS broke when I upgraded >to kernel 2.4.26, and I could only get help fixing ALSA, so I'm >running ALSA). > >So I'm trying to set up the hardware MIDI on the SBLive. I'm >following the directions at ><http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html> and things look >normal. When I run "playmidi -a score.midi", it looks like it's >playing, but there isn't any sound. (Yes, the speaker is plugged into >the right place.) I've looked at the mixer settings >and don't see anything obvious to change. > >So can anyone give me any advice either about how to get the hardware >synth to work or how to get Timidity to work better? One part of my >score is a quarter note longer than the others, and I need to find out >where this happens. > > >
