midi stuff

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dave. I am sort of confused about the whole process of midi, 
> whether it be hardware or software but here is what I ended up doing. 
> BTW, this was all started because my step mother who I have running FC3 
> and T-Bird was getting email from one of her freakin AOL friends and was 
> sending email with embedded midi's for background sound. And whenever 
> something doesn't work it looks like a shortcoming to Linux to those 
> that don't know better. Amazing how Linux gets blamed if an application 
> doesn't do something but windows NEVER gets blamed if an application 
> doesn't do whats expected.
> Anywho,
>    Here is what I did. Both myself and step mother have motherboards 
> with onboard sound VIA chips (via82xx), almost every motherboard comes 
> with onboard sound and they just work so, it would seem that timidity 
> does not require a hardware midi port?


Timidity is a midi SOFTSYNTH.  It will take in a midi file and render it to a
wav file (PCM audio) in realtime (same as what a hadware synth can do, only it
uses the host cpu and works on any soundcard, even ones that don't have a midi
synth)

media-sound/timidity++
      Latest version available: 2.13.2
      Latest version installed: 2.13.2
      Size of downloaded files: 1,544 kB
      Homepage:    http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
      Description: A handy MIDI to WAV converter with OSS and ALSA output
support
      License:     GPL-2


Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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