Just for comparison, I'm running timidity without problems on an old Pentium 3 at 350 Mhz with only 192 Mb of RAM. You might need to give up on playmidi and use aplaymidi which is native alsa for driving hw synths, though I haven't spent much time on this. Still, timidity is running smoothly with my SB Live 1 card. I'm using the timidity-eawpats-12-1 from CCRMA for my sound fonts. Laura Conrad writes: > > 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. > > -- > Laura (mailto:lconrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) > (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 > -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +1 202.494.7040
