On Saturday 11 November 2006 07:10, Anne Wilson wrote: >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 Copy them anyplace (permanent) you like, sfxload will use the path you give it. ISTR I have that in my rc.local file for my FC2 boot drive, but haven't set that up yet for FC6. >Anne -- Cheers, Gene
