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I can't play midi's. Sound works. In KDE's control thingy, in the audio seccion there is no midi device to select. Is this a hardware problem or is there something ...
  1. 03-01-2006 #1
    jonantice
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    no midi?

    I can't play midi's. Sound works. In KDE's control thingy, in the audio seccion there is no midi device to select. Is this a hardware problem or is there something I have to download? Do you need to know what soundcard I have to help me? (I don't know what I have at the moment) Thanks in advance for your help.
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  2. 03-01-2006 #2
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    Yep this means your sound hardware doesn't have a midi table/synth on it. Fear not there are software workarounds. If you just want to play back midi, install timidity++, which uses a sweet sounding midi software synth. I believe there are engines which can permanently take the place of your missing hardware. Pretty much all systems I have used have been without, but I always get by with timidity.
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    Ok, so I installed the timidity and freepats packages. This is what I get:
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    family-desktop:/etc/timidity# timidity /home/jonandtice/documents/tabs/test.mid
Output rate adjusted to 48000 Hz (requested 44100 Hz)
Warning: Audio buffer is too small.
Playing /home/jonandtice/documents/tabs/test.mid
MIDI file: /home/jonandtice/documents/tabs/test.mid
Format: 1  Tracks: 2  Divisions: 96
Sequence: Title
Copyright: Copyright message
Text: This file was created by TSE3 from Trax Software.
Track name: Untitled track
No pre-resampling cache hit
Last 1 MIDI events are ignored
Playing time: ~12 seconds
Notes cut: 0
Notes lost totally: 0
    What's wrong?
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  4. 03-02-2006 #4
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    Ok, timidity does work, I had a bad midi file. But how do I get a program such as KMid to work?
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  5. 03-04-2006 #5
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    apt-get timidity-interfaces-extra so that U can Have gtk based gui:
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    sarge:~# timidity -ig
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