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Re: No sound using timidity
by D. Michael McIntyre-3
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On Sunday 21 June 2009, marcusantonius wrote:
> Recording via my Midi-Keyboard works (I can see the notes in the editor,
> but again cannot hear them when I press play). Using Hydrogen or Tuxguitar
> works, so I think the Timidity installation is fine.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Actually, I think what you're probably doing wrong is making the assumption
that because Hydrogen and Tuxguitar work, the Timidity installation is fine.
This suggests the opposite to me, and I think it might be broken. The most
likely suspect is that if Timidity is trying to connect directly to the audio
hardware via ALSA, it will fail since JACK is running, because this hardware
only accepts one connection at a time, and JACK will monopolize the hardware.
The solution to that one from the command line is to start Timidity with
something like:
timidity -iA -Oj
Another possibility is that it might not have a soundfont installed, or might
not be configured properly out of the box. I'm a bit rusty on those issues,
since I don't actually use Timidity myself. When I need a General MIDI soft
synth, I tend to use QSynth, which you could try yourself if Timidity
continues to give you trouble. I imagine 64 Studio probably has the Fluid
Soundfont package by now, and that works well with QSynth (and can be made to
work with Timidity too, though the details of how also escape me at the
moment. Someone just explained this recently, but I'm afraid I've forgotten
everything.)
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> Recording via my Midi-Keyboard works (I can see the notes in the editor,
> but again cannot hear them when I press play). Using Hydrogen or Tuxguitar
> works, so I think the Timidity installation is fine.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Actually, I think what you're probably doing wrong is making the assumption
that because Hydrogen and Tuxguitar work, the Timidity installation is fine.
This suggests the opposite to me, and I think it might be broken. The most
likely suspect is that if Timidity is trying to connect directly to the audio
hardware via ALSA, it will fail since JACK is running, because this hardware
only accepts one connection at a time, and JACK will monopolize the hardware.
The solution to that one from the command line is to start Timidity with
something like:
timidity -iA -Oj
Another possibility is that it might not have a soundfont installed, or might
not be configured properly out of the box. I'm a bit rusty on those issues,
since I don't actually use Timidity myself. When I need a General MIDI soft
synth, I tend to use QSynth, which you could try yourself if Timidity
continues to give you trouble. I imagine 64 Studio probably has the Fluid
Soundfont package by now, and that works well with QSynth (and can be made to
work with Timidity too, though the details of how also escape me at the
moment. Someone just explained this recently, but I'm afraid I've forgotten
everything.)
--
D. Michael McIntyre
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