On Friday 10 November 2006 22:45, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 10 November 2006 23:17, Alan Lake wrote: > > I am not able to play MIDI files with XMMS or KMID. > > > > I'm running vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen on an AMD x86_64 box. My sound > > card is on the motherboard and is an nForce3 AC'97. I added AMIDI-plug > > 0.6 to XMMS. I'm using ALSA backend 0.8, which outputs to Midi Through > > at port 14:0. My mixer setting is 0:Synth:0. The Alsamixer shows PCM > > as turned on. MIDI music appears to play, but no sound comes out. XMMS > > does play some other formats, like ogg. > > > > Thanks for helping to figure out how to configure xmms so as to be able > > to play MIDI files. > > The only soundcards you are going to be able to play midi with are Audigy > ones using emu drivers, and thats only after loading soundfonts. For other > cards you will need to use Qsynth for example, load a soundfont onto that, > and then play Kmid through that. > > Soundfonts are available from many places on the Internet, but hammersound > is one I use. http://www.hammersound.net/ > > A GM one is probably the best to get. > Nigel, I know I did this before, with the sound fonts from the Audigy installation disk, but I can't remember where they had to be copied to. Can you help? Thanks Anne
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