maybe this link can help? http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/TimiditySetup.html
Best. Leo On Dec 15, 2007 8:44 AM, D. Michael McIntyre < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007, Bharani Prasanth Sure wrote: > > > > I doubt selecting a particular bank would solve your problem, but > maybe I > > > don't quite understand exactly what you're facing. > > > > > > Can you send me a sample file to examine for myself, so I can try to > get > > > it to play with TiMidity? I'll post the results back to the list. > > > Yes, > > I meant send it to me privately, instead of mailing a copy to all 50,000 > Ubuntu Studio users who are subscribed to this list. > > > I think you are right..But how to select a particular > bank. > > Is there any way to do it? Please try to play the attached file..Most > > You select a bank with a particular MIDI controller. Something like > Rosegarden insulates you from the details of how this works, and I don't > quite remember them myself. > > Anyway, as I suspected, changing banks doesn't have anything to do with > your > problem. It says: > > No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 22 - this instrument will > not > be heard > > What this means is that there is no program 22 in tone bank 0. This > doesn't > mean you need to change to a different bank, because there isn't another > bank. Tone bank 0 is the only bank with the default setup as TiMidity + > Freepats ship out of the box. > > If you look in /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg you can plainly see that there > is no > program 22 in tone bank 0, just like this error indicates: > > bank 0 > > 0 Tone_000/000_Acoustic_Grand_Piano.pat amp=120 pan=center > [...] > 21 Tone_000/021_Accordion.pat > 23 Tone_000/023_Tango_Accordion.pat > [...] > > They skipped over program 22. I don't work at Freepats or TiMidity, and I > have no idea why this is so. > > Possible solutions: > > 1) Load the MIDI file into something like Rosegarden and change whatever > is > trying to use program 22 to use some other program. (You have options > from > there. You could export the result back out to a .mid file, or run > TiMidity > as an ALSA synth client (timidity -iA), and play TiMidity directly from > Rosegarden.) > > 2) Edit /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg (as root, of course) and map program 22 > to > something else, just so you'll get some result here. > > 3) Run TiMidity with some other soundfont. (I just spent 20 minutes > digging > around in the 897-line man page trying to figure out just how to do this, > and > I have no clue yet. It does say it can run using .sf2 format soundfonts, > the > most common type, but damn if I see what string of text to feed it to make > that happen; nor can I hit on what string of text to search for to find > the > answer.) > > 4) Abandon TiMidity in favor of something with a friendly interface, like > QSynth. (Unless you're using it for some purpose QSynth can't accomplish. > It does have some unique functionality.) > > > probably you will see the result same as mine.Also timidity gets > garbled > > sound when I use it in the back ground like when I am switching between > the > > windows while playing. Is there any way to get over with it...? > > That's probably a realtime priority issue or something. Not my area of > expertise. I'm totally dependent on the kind folks at projects like > Ubuntu > Studio to save me from my abysmal ignorance about such matters. (I know > what > I don't know, but you have to be a rocket scientist and breathe and sweat > this realtime priority latency gobbledygook to get anything to work. I'm > glad there are people willing to wade through all that insanely > complicated > garbage on my account, because I'm certainly not up for the challenge > myself. > Blah.) > -- > D. Michael McIntyre > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >
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