![]() mid file, before trying to get TuxGuitar working. The location of the downloaded SoundFont file goes into the “soundfont” statement in the. cfg file, than mess about with patching individual instruments (IIRC, there are 127/8 different ones). It’s easier to use the “soundfont” statement in the. To improve on the default sound when you play midi files, and 2. Eventually, you need a file that includes as many instruments as your midi file collection may need. You can also purchase better ones - if you google for the sites. So basickly i have to download the files that have the instruments sound right?ĭownload the best SoundFont file you can. If you do, that means timidity is working. You should hear it play and get some information on the terminal. If you have a midi file (.mid) ready for playing, from a terminal (best for the first run of timidity) as ordinary user, you can execute this command: timidity /path_to_midi_file/midi_filename.mid Soundfont /path_to_soundfont_file/soundfont_filename Like this: #Īdd this statement substituting your own path/filename to the downloaded soundfont file (.sf2): soundfont /path_to_soundfont_file/soundfont_filename On openSUSE 11.2 that is actually a link to the minimum.cfg file in the same directory where the edits end up.įind these lines and change the two source statements into comments: # Then setting up timidity.cfg is the next step.Īpply your favourite editor, with root privileges, to /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg file. Hope you have a SoundFont file downloaded as described above. I assume you will install version 1.2 from packman’s repo. I also note that version 1.2 has a plug-in for JACK, which is useful for my own setup. From a very quick look at TuxGuitar, it may be possible to get MIDI sound working with Timidity and ALSA, but it may require some more fiddling with config files. I note from Guitar Pro’s website that GP6 has a new linux version (not free), but I don’t know if it will use Timidity as a soft-synth. Running on openSUSE? What version? KDE or Gnome? Briefly, what are you trying to connect and apply, if looking for alternative linux apps? To help progress your problem further, and/or help you setup timidity.cfg, I will need to know at least the following: That enables me to use RoseGarden as a serious MIDI and audio sequencer (similar to Cakewalk on Windows). For example I use them in conjunction with JACK which provides real-time, low latency audio and MIDI connectivity. There are alternative soft-synths to Timidity, that can be driven by MIDI and use SoundFont, such as Fluidsynth used with Qsynth (GUI for easier setup). New development of timidity seems to be in limbo right now, documentation is poor, and several of the old googled links now fail. Even if there is some obscure way to be found, IMHO you can bet it will involve several arcane incantations to make it work using ALSA. ![]() This would probably need either timidity support in guitar pro and/or a development patch for Timidity. It sounds to me that you are trying to use Timidity as a kind of software synthesizer (soft-synth) to be played directly from guitar pro. I can/will explain setting up timidity.cfg, but I don’t think it will help you with your guitar pro. You can download free SoundFont files of varying quality, for example and. The quality of sound is dependent on the quality and size of the SoundFont file. The simplest way to get sound from Timidity is to reference a SoundFont file (see Wikipedia here), and that is how I always used it. The quality of sound is ok for practicing or messing about but it’s not great. ![]() For example: timidity ~/path_to_file/filename.mid It usually comes packaged with modern linux distros but also requires a 10Mb plus set of patch files or SoundFonts to be usable.īasically, Timidity is useful for playing MIDI files (.mid) from the linux command line or a file manager. TiMidity is a MIDI to WAVE converter and player that uses SoundFonts and Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files to generate digital audio data from general MIDI files. This is what the ALSA wiki has to say about Timidity:
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