Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-23 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:50:19 +0100 Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I don't know what iec958 is. > > I have used alsamixer and muted all the inputs I can. iec958 are the optical digital lines and it seems like something that normally shows on the mixer even if the optical jack wa

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-22 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:57:16PM -0700, Seeker5528 wrote: > Check the capture level, the iec958 levels, mute any inputs not being > used, and try changing what is selected as the recording device. Sorry, I don't know what iec958 is. I have used alsamixer and muted all the inputs I can. > > E

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:15:05 +0100 Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm trying, is to have Rosegarden4 working, which is ok now, > (except jack lost few samples). > The timidity acting as a server eat 20% of my CPU, is it normal (even > when nothing is playing) ? Soundblaster live cards ar

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:50:15 +0100 Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, > > when I try to play sound with alsa under a 2.6 kernel, the quality is > awful, the system seems to repetitively play little snatchs of my tune > over and over, superimposing some of the sound on top of what it

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-19 Thread John O'Hagan
Pooly wrote: >> Oh, and try tiMidity with the -Os (server mode) or -OR (aRts mode) options >>and see what that does. > > >I ran timidity -iA -Os -A90a as root (not as a user), and now it's working ! >Thank for you help, on that. >What I'm trying, is to have Rosegarden4 working, which is ok now, >

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-18 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, when I try to play sound with alsa under a 2.6 kernel, the quality is awful, the system seems to repetitively play little snatchs of my tune over and over, superimposing some of the sound on top of what it has already played. Essentially my perl script is: system("timidity -L /usr/share/

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-18 Thread Pooly
Hi, > I had similar a problem with an es1968 card a year or so ago; from memory it > was to do with aRTs. Try playing a file directly from tiMidity (type "man > timidity" for how) to see if that works; if it does, check your KDE sound > server settings to make sure they are consistent with tiMidi

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-18 Thread Seeker5528
Oops, I didn't notice until I hit send that reply to mailing list put in the personal email address instead of the mailing list address. Sorry if the email is not desired. On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:42:37 +0100 Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > apparently midi is not supported by the snd-v

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-17 Thread John O'Hagan
Pooly wrote: >Hi, > >apparently midi is not supported by the snd-viaxx driver (with the >VT8233),so I started timidity : >timidity -iA >but when I play a midi file (with Kmid for example),I hear nothing, >except if I press stop, I hear one or two notes... > >[...] Hi Pooly, I had similar a pro

playing midi with timidity

2005-09-17 Thread Pooly
Hi, apparently midi is not supported by the snd-viaxx driver (with the VT8233),so I started timidity : timidity -iA but when I play a midi file (with Kmid for example),I hear nothing, except if I press stop, I hear one or two notes. I've added option on the config file to make timidity less CPU-h