Ubuntu and Midi

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Nathan Sprangers wrote:

> I must preface this post with this comment: I am extremely impressed
> with Ubuntu and all that it's doing - this is in no way a complaint but
> a request.
> 
> Now, the one thing that I need in Ubuntu to make it complete is better
> midi support. I don't have an audio card that supports midi however, so
> what I'm talking about is midi synth.  As a musician there are two apps
> that I would like to use that I can't right now: Rosegarden4 (notation
> software, anyone know of a gtk subsitute?) and Solfege.  I have tried
> installing timidity from the Ubuntu repositories and timidity-patches
> from Debian stable, however timidity is a nightmare to configure.  MIDI
> is something that I think should *just work* - as so many other things
> in Ubuntu do!
> 
> So my question is: has anyone else been able to successfully get midi
> synth on Ubuntu?  Midi and sound seem to be a common problem in Ubuntu
> without much of a solution - at least that's my observation.

The question is, which soundcard you are using. If it's emu10k1
(soundblaster live and onwards) based card, the midi support is available
via alsa ... and you have a sounfont-library already on the cd, that came
with your soundcard ;-)

The main problem with midi-support in almost all distributions is, that only
a few people use it on linux as there's no software available like Cubase,
Logic and other nice musician-toys. The second problem is, that imho there's
no "good" soundbank available that's "free" (in the kind of released under
the gpl). Windows like all other mayor os's have some soundbanks, that
already included, but imho all linux distributions have none.

cu
Sebastian

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