Ubuntu and Midi

[Steve Haines]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:57 -0500, alainhenry wrote: 
> I tried to run timidity as midi server the way I do in Mandrake 9.2.  
> 
> The command is
> 
> timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100

Alain, way to go, my man! I followed your updated wiki procedure and I
can play midi files with Timidity. AND Noteedit midi playback of written
scores works as well.

NOW for what I think will be an improvement: Try "B0,8" in the Timidity
string instead of "B2,8". On my machine with just on-board sound, the
difference was amazing! Smooth, no scratching, more consistent timing.
What I think B0 does is maximize the buffering of the midi file. But
whatever, it sure helped here.

Second problem: Did you have a problem extracting Unison.sf2.gz from
personalcopy? I have downloaded it twice, and it will not extract. Error
message keeps insisting that there is a file or directory in the tarball
that it can't find. Any secret?