MIDI configuration

[Justin]

I went through all that stuff for timidity++ and while midi plays under
linux
for me, I have never gotten it to work when running programs within wine.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle at yahoo.fr>
To: "Tor Einar Toennessen" <eitoenne at online.no>; <wine-users at winehq.com>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: MIDI configuration


> Thanks.
> I gave it a closer look yesterday and I have seen that a special
> configuration of timidity++ is needed to support MIDI on my sound card.
> (es1371).
>
> I will throw my es1371 and my NVidia sh**t out.
> > First of all you need a driver that supports midi. Some of the
> > OSS-drivers
> > does not support midi.
> > I have a Soundblaster Live Platinum, and AFAIK the OSS
> > (kernel)-driver does
> > not support midi.
> >
> > AFAIK this is true for all SB Live cards.
> >
> > If the kernel-driver for your card does not support midi, you'll have
> > to
> > check out ALSA ( http://alsa-project.org ).
> >
> > There are two series of ALSA-drivers 0.5 (which is now considered
> > deprecated)
> > and 0.9.  AFAIK 0.9 is now at RC6-level.
> >
> > ALSA has OSS-emulation at kernel-level, by the way.
> >
> > You might also have to get a utility to load soundfonts into your
> > card.
> > For SB-cards you can use "sfxload", which on debian is in package
> > "awesfx".
> >
> > After this I would test with a native Linux-application. The
> > ALSA-pages
> > has links.
> >
> >
> > When it comes to wine, midi support is only available in the
> > OSS-driver
> > ( that would be wineoss.drv ). So make sure that one is selected in
> > the
> > wine-config.  AFAIK only midi-out is supported (but that is probably
> > what you want).
> >
> > As a Windows application to test with, I would suggest JAZZ++
> > ( http://jazzware.com ).
> > This is an OpenSource sequencer , which is available for both Linux
> > and
> > Windows.
> > It uses wxWindows, so you should be able to build it with
> > debugging-info
> > too, with a free compiler ( MinGW32 ? ).
> >
> >
> > If you give me more details about your card, I can probably help you
> > more.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tor Einar
> >
> >
> >
> >
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