Timidty

[Leonardo Palomares]

maybe this link can help?
http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/TimiditySetup.html

Best.
Leo

On Dec 15, 2007 8:44 AM, D. Michael McIntyre <
michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 15 December 2007, Bharani Prasanth Sure wrote:
>
> > > I doubt selecting a particular bank would solve your problem, but
> maybe I
> > > don't quite understand exactly what you're facing.
> > >
> > > Can you send me a sample file to examine for myself, so I can try to
> get
> > > it to play with TiMidity?  I'll post the results back to the list.
>
> > Yes,
>
> I meant send it to me privately, instead of mailing a copy to all 50,000
> Ubuntu Studio users who are subscribed to this list.
>
> >                I think you are right..But how to select a particular
> bank.
> > Is there any way to do it? Please try to play the attached file..Most
>
> You select a bank with a particular MIDI controller.  Something like
> Rosegarden insulates you from the details of how this works, and I don't
> quite remember them myself.
>
> Anyway, as I suspected, changing banks doesn't have anything to do with
> your
> problem.  It says:
>
>  No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 22 - this instrument will
> not
>  be heard
>
> What this means is that there is no program 22 in tone bank 0.  This
> doesn't
> mean you need to change to a different bank, because there isn't another
> bank.  Tone bank 0 is the only bank with the default setup as TiMidity +
> Freepats ship out of the box.
>
> If you look in /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg you can plainly see that there
> is no
> program 22 in tone bank 0, just like this error indicates:
>
>  bank 0
>
>   0      Tone_000/000_Acoustic_Grand_Piano.pat amp=120 pan=center
>   [...]
>   21     Tone_000/021_Accordion.pat
>   23     Tone_000/023_Tango_Accordion.pat
>   [...]
>
> They skipped over program 22.  I don't work at Freepats or TiMidity, and I
> have no idea why this is so.
>
> Possible solutions:
>
> 1) Load the MIDI file into something like Rosegarden and change whatever
> is
> trying to use program 22 to use some other program.  (You have options
> from
> there.  You could export the result back out to a .mid file, or run
> TiMidity
> as an ALSA synth client (timidity -iA), and play TiMidity directly from
> Rosegarden.)
>
> 2) Edit /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg (as root, of course) and map program 22
> to
> something else, just so you'll get some result here.
>
> 3) Run TiMidity with some other soundfont.  (I just spent 20 minutes
> digging
> around in the 897-line man page trying to figure out just how to do this,
> and
> I have no clue yet.  It does say it can run using .sf2 format soundfonts,
> the
> most common type, but damn if I see what string of text to feed it to make
> that happen; nor can I hit on what string of text to search for to find
> the
> answer.)
>
> 4) Abandon TiMidity in favor of something with a friendly interface, like
> QSynth.  (Unless you're using it for some purpose QSynth can't accomplish.
> It does have some unique functionality.)
>
> > probably you will see the result same as mine.Also timidity  gets
> garbled
> > sound when I use it in the back ground like when I am switching between
> the
> > windows while playing. Is there any way to get over with it...?
>
> That's probably a realtime priority issue or something.  Not my area of
> expertise.  I'm totally dependent on the kind folks at projects like
> Ubuntu
> Studio to save me from my abysmal ignorance about such matters.  (I know
> what
> I don't know, but you have to be a rocket scientist and breathe and sweat
> this realtime priority latency gobbledygook to get anything to work.  I'm
> glad there are people willing to wade through all that insanely
> complicated
> garbage on my account, because I'm certainly not up for the challenge
> myself.
> Blah.)
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> D. Michael McIntyre
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